Feb 23, 2006 01:16
18 yrs ago
Japanese term

若年者三大危機

Japanese to English Bus/Financial Advertising / Public Relations
This is from a brochure for a crisis management company. The sentence is:
若年者三大危機等の対策や予防の基礎研究が様々な形で発表され、病院関係者や警察関係者からも注目されています。

Discussion

casey (asker) Feb 23, 2006:
Ah, I just read Maynard's note. That makes sense.
casey (asker) Feb 23, 2006:
Is it really that simple? "3 crises of youth"? What are these 3 crises?

Proposed translations

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Three crises of the youth

It sounds more like mental or psycological crises.
Peer comment(s):

agree Maynard Hogg : From the context, my guesses would be 非行 (juvenile, delinquency), 性病(AIDs and other STDs/STIs), and 就職難.
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agree Naikei Wong : perhaps: three major crises in youth / adolescence
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threefold youth crisis

another alternative...
note 'crisis' is singular if quantifying in this way ("a" three-fold crisis)

or perhaps "triple whammy" (not a serious contender...)

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Note added at 22 mins (2006-02-23 01:38:20 GMT)
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FSO: Global Analysis with JR Nyquist "A Threefold Crisis " 09/16/2005The impending crisis is threefold. America faces economic, international and internal troubles. © 2005 Jeffrey R. Nyquist Email l Website l FSO Archives ...
www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/091... -

Transitional Program - Revolutionary Agenda for the US - ResolutionThe Threefold Crisis Facing US Working People ... There is a threefold crisis facing working people in the United States today: 1) We confront a deepening ...
www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/fit06.htm - 66k -

Families in Society: Advancing Social Work With Older AdultsThreefold Crisis. The lack of preparedness for these human needs and the capacity to support and address them constitute a threefold crisis confronting ...
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_qa3625/is_200507/ai_n15639563 - 34k -

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGIC,GGI...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGIC,GGI...
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threefold danger in early life/three major risks for the youth

I prefer 'danger' in this context.

Women in Iraq are facing a threefold danger from US troops and prisons, Islamic fundamentalists and international sex traffickers. Photos of women brutalized in Abu Ghraib briefly appeared on the internet and then disappeared, ...
http://www.washingtonfreepress.org/73/northwestBeyond.htm

http://venus.ci.uw.edu.pl/~rubikon/forum/claudia1.htm
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three major/critical issues pertaining to youth

action plan for crisis management of three major/critical issues
pertaining to youth

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Note added at 5 hrs (2006-02-23 06:34:35 GMT)
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Destitution, poor living conditions, inadequate education, malnutrition, illiteracy, unemployment and lack of leisure-time activities are factors that marginalize young people, which makes some of them vulnerable to exploitation as well as to involvement in criminal and other deviant behaviour
Objectives and actions reflect the three themes of International Youth Year: ... and jointly plan innovative approaches to critical issues concerning youth. ...
www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/japanese/intl/un_dinf/un_5081.htm - 102k
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Unholy trinity of crises facing the youths

I know it is a bit overblown. I believe, though, that there is a need to stress that these crises are 大危機 thus greater than and cannot be equated with run of the mill 危機.
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Three crises today's Japanese youth are facing

Just trying to be more specific -----
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