While the short answer leans towards a no, the short answer also isn't the full answer.

雖然簡短的答案傾向於否定，但簡短的答案也不是完整的答案。

And so I sought out an economics professor from Kyoto to find out what's going on.

於是我找了一位來自京都的經濟學教授來了解情況。

Why did the government announced that Kyoto was on the path to bankruptcy for that matter?

為什麼政府宣佈京都正走在破產的道路上這件事？

What would a bankrupt kyoto even look like And what are the chances of it actually happening Back in the summer of 2021?

一個破產的京都會是什麼樣子呢？它實際發生的可能性有多大？

The guilt a government announced to its citizens that the city was at risk of bankruptcy.

一個政府向其公民宣佈該城市有破產的風險。

But this announcement was really just step one of a much bigger plan by the city government.

但這一宣佈實際上只是市政府一個更大計劃的第一步。

A plan in an attempt to recover from the mistakes and poor city planning that started almost exactly 40 years prior during the bubble and it caught, many including the citizens of Kyoto by surprise my son with the way the world has been for the past two plus years, it would be easy to say that it's all the fault of Covid Kyoto did completely empty out at one point.

一個試圖從錯誤和糟糕的城市規劃中恢復的計劃，幾乎正好是40年前保麗龍時期開始的，它讓包括京都市民在內的許多人措手不及，我的兒子在過去兩年多的時間裡，以世界的方式，很容易說這都是Covid的錯，京都確實一度完全空了。

But the financial impact of the virus and subsequent lack of tourism didn't so much cause the problem, but rather exasperated and make it impossible to ignore longer than it had been.

但是，病毒的金融影響和隨後的旅遊缺乏並沒有造成這個問題，而是激化了這個問題，並使其無法比以往更長時間地被忽視。

If anything, the tourism and at times over tourism was propping kyoto up.

如果有的話，旅遊業，有時是過度的旅遊業在支撐著京都。

The actual root of the problem starts considerably deeper.

問題的實際根源始於相當深的地方。

But these subways now serve as more of a pressing backdrop for all the problems that have followed the problems that led to the government announcing the potential bankruptcy Gilda has always been a spot that tourists flock to both domestic and international.

但這些地鐵現在更多的是作為一個緊迫的背景，在所有的問題之後，導致政府宣佈潛在的破產 吉爾達一直是國內外遊客趨之若鶩的一個景點。

But in many ways this tourism itself and Delta's response to it has actually done more harm than good the city has seen and even encouraged big buyers from within Japan and overseas, buying up land in bulk for hotels and in turn driving up real estate prices.

但在許多方面，這種旅遊本身和三角洲對它的反應實際上是弊大於利的，該市所看到的甚至鼓勵了來自日本國內和海外的大買家，大量購買土地建酒店，反過來推動了房地產價格上漲。

And so slowly and consistently residents and small business owners have been moving out of Kyoto to places where they can afford to live or run their businesses subsequently taking their income, their taxes and often families with them.

是以，居民和小企業主一直在緩慢而持續地搬出京都，搬到他們有能力居住或經營企業的地方，然後帶著他們的收入、稅收，往往還有家人一起搬走。

And if this train isn't hard enough over a long period of time, what they leave behind aggravates the issue even further because as this happens, kill to gradually inches towards the majority of the population fitting into two main categories, either students or the elderly and aging, each contributing inadvertently in its own way to paving the path towards potential bankruptcy, isn't it?

如果這列火車在很長一段時間內還不夠硬，那麼他們留下的東西就會使問題進一步惡化，因為隨著這種情況的發生，殺到逐漸寸步難行，大多數人都適合於兩大類，要麼是學生，要麼是老年人和老齡化，每一種都在不經意間以自己的方式為潛在破產鋪平道路，不是嗎？

But the truth of the matter is that even with all of this, Kyoto isn't actually on the verge of bankruptcy, Not even close somebody.

但事情的真相是，即使有這一切，京都實際上並沒有處於破產的邊緣，甚至沒有人接近。

But this still leaves the question of what would it actually mean for kyoto to go bankrupt?

但這仍然留下了一個問題：京東破產的實際意義是什麼？

What would that look like?

那會是什麼樣子的呢？

I have the chance to see Kyoto completely empty at the start of the pandemic, spend a few days they're interviewing the locals and capturing the silence.

我有機會看到京都在大流行病開始時完全空無一人，花了幾天時間，他們在採訪當地人，並捕捉到了這種沉默。

But with a strong concentration of cultural treasures and such a long history.

但由於文化寶藏的強烈集中和如此悠久的歷史。

It's truly difficult to imagine the idea of the city going bankrupt or what shape that would even take.

真的很難想象城市破產的想法，或者說這甚至會是什麼形式。

So, of course, I had to ask talk about They could actually smoke.

是以，我當然要問一問關於他們實際上可以吸菸的話題。

It's also very soon directed towards in this car you also need.

這也是很快的方向，在這輛車上你也需要。

Mhm.

嗯。