CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: CNN STUDENT NEWS is launching its last week of 2014. Thanks for taking ten minutes for commercial free current event.

这是CNN学生新闻2014年最后一周新闻了。感谢大家收看十分钟不含商业广告的时事新闻。

First up, this December 15, an election in Japan. Its economy isn`t doing well. We told you it fell to a recession this year, which means instead of growing, it`s shrinking. But Japanese voters still seem to have faith in President Shinzo Abe to turn that around. Even though when election wasn`t required until 2016, Japan`s leader has the authority to hold snap elections earlier. And Sunday`s vote looks like it gave Abe`s political party even more seats in Japan`s parliament.

首先，在12月15号日本举行了选举。日本经济最近不景气，之前我们告诉大家说今年日本经济出现衰退，这意味着经济没有出现增长反而收缩了。但是日本民众仍对首相安倍晋三投以信任票，希望能扭转经济大局。尽管正常选举应该在2016年举行，但是日本领导人有权提前选举日期。而周日的投票看起来给了安倍执政党更多议会席位。

President Abe`s reforms have been controversial. He`s increased government spending and tended to help stimulate the economy, but he`s also increased sales taxes, which has hurt small businesses and their customers.

关于首相安倍晋三的改革一直是备受争议的。他增加了政府开支，也对经济起到了刺激作用，但是他同样也提高了销售税，这可能对小企业和其他商户造成损害。

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, what does this mean? It means that the Prime Minister will have four more years to institute his plan of economic reforms known as Abenomics. Flooding the market with cash, encouraging corporations to create more jobs and increasing government spending. All of this in attempt to revive the Japanese economy after nearly two decades of stagnation. So far, the policy has been a mixed bag: there was a very unpopular sales tax increase earlier this year that helped push Japan into a surprise recession. The Yen is at a seven year low, and in this country, the rely is on imports when the Yen is weak, a lot of things at the grocery store are much more expensive, so it`s really hurting Japanese consumers and small and midsize businesses and many voters are expressing apathy as one reason that the voter turnout in the snap election was so low, but the prime minister says, this is a mandate from the Japanese people to stay the course and keep pushing ahead with Abenomics, and hopefully, he says, give the Japanese people the economic revival that he promised when he was first elected two years ago. And apparently now reelected for another four years.

那么究竟是什么意思呢?这意味着首相又有4年时间来继续完成他的经济改革，也就是所谓的“安倍经济学”。增加市场经济资金流通，鼓励企业创造更多就业机会和增加政府开支。所有这些措施都是用来唤醒日本20年以来停滞的经济状态。目前这一政策一直喜忧参半，今年早些时候制定的提高销售税令日本经济更加衰退。日元出现7年以来最低点，而对于日本来讲，当日元出现贬值的时候就更加依赖进口，因为商店里的东西更贵。这一状况严重打击了日本消费者和中小型企业家，众多选民也对选举持冷漠态度。这也是在此次临时选举投票率低的原因之一。但是安倍晋三表示这是日本人民的委托，能够继续进行经济改革，继续推动“安倍经济学”发展，他希望实现两年前选举时做出的誓言，让日本人民从经济复苏中受益。而现在显然选举又给了安倍四年时间的机会。

CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: CNN STUDENT NEWS is launching its last week of 2014. Thanks for taking ten minutes for commercial free current event.

First up, this December 15, an election in Japan. Its economy isn`t doing well. We told you it fell to a recession this year, which means instead of growing, it`s shrinking. But Japanese voters still seem to have faith in President Shinzo Abe to turn that around. Even though when election wasn`t required until 2016, Japan`s leader has the authority to hold snap elections earlier. And Sunday`s vote looks like it gave Abe`s political party even more seats in Japan`s parliament.

President Abe`s reforms have been controversial. He`s increased government spending and tended to help stimulate the economy, but he`s also increased sales taxes, which has hurt small businesses and their customers.

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, what does this mean? It means that the Prime Minister will have four more years to institute his plan of economic reforms known as Abenomics. Flooding the market with cash, encouraging corporations to create more jobs and increasing government spending. All of this in attempt to revive the Japanese economy after nearly two decades of stagnation. So far, the policy has been a mixed bag: there was a very unpopular sales tax increase earlier this year that helped push Japan into a surprise recession. The Yen is at a seven year low, and in this country, the rely is on imports when the Yen is weak, a lot of things at the grocery store are much more expensive, so it`s really hurting Japanese consumers and small and midsize businesses and many voters are expressing apathy as one reason that the voter turnout in the snap election was so low, but the prime minister says, this is a mandate from the Japanese people to stay the course and keep pushing ahead with Abenomics, and hopefully, he says, give the Japanese people the economic revival that he promised when he was first elected two years ago. And apparently now reelected for another four years.