双语新闻：日本经济第三季度萎缩2.1%

Japan's third quarter gross domestic product (GDP) preliminary data released by the government on the 15th showed that excluding the impact of price fluctuations, real GDP fell 0.5% in the third quarter from the previous quarter and 2.1% on an annualized basis. It was the first negative quarterly growth this year. In the first half of this year, many media and economic circles in Europe and the United States had issued a sound of optimism about the Japanese economy, and there was a lot of optimism in Japan, and the Japanese stock market was especially hot. But the winds have changed recently, and the possibility of its slipping behind Germany in the global GDP rankings has sparked heated debate. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in a blue book on the Japanese economy released on the 14th that in the medium and long term, the Japanese economy will continue to adapt to adjustment, but the deep-seated structural problems of the Japanese economy and society are difficult to solve, and the situation of long-term chronic recession is difficult to reverse.

日本政府15日发布的今年第三季度国内生产总值（GDP）初步数据显示，除去物价波动的影响，三季度实际GDP环比下降0.5%，按年率计算下降2.1%。这是日本经济今年首次出现季度负增长。今年上半年，欧美许多媒体和经济界人士曾对日本经济发出一片看好之声，日本国内也出现大量乐观情绪，日本股市尤其热得发烫。但最近一段时间风向发生变化，其全球GDP排名可能滑落至德国之后引发热议。中国社科院在14日发布的日本经济蓝皮书中指出，中长期来看，日本经济不断进行适应性调整，但日本经济和社会深层次结构性问题难以解决，长期慢性衰退的局面难以扭转。

This marked the first contraction in three quarters.

这是三个季度以来的首次收缩。

Real gross domestic product decreased 0.5 percent from the April-June quarter.

实际国内生产总值(gdp)环比下降0.5%。

Japan's economy grew a revised 3.7 percent in the first quarter and 4.5 percent in the second quarter.

日本经济在第一季度和第二季度分别增长了3.7%和4.5%。