铃木浩是日本驻英国大使，苏珊·兰利是伦敦女市长。很少有关系能像日本与英国这样，既拥有深厚的友谊根基，又对未来充满强烈渴望。从遍布英国各地繁茂的樱花树，到世代在此投资的日本企业，我们的纽带不仅体现在统计数据上，更体现在社区、企业和友谊之中。
Hiroshi Suzuki is the Japanese ambassador to the U.K., and Susan Langley is the Lady Mayor of London. Few relationships combine such deep-rooted friendship with such a strong appetite for the future as that between Japan and the U.K. From the cherry trees flourishing across Britain to Japanese firms that have invested here for generations, our ties are visible not only in statistics, but in communities, businesses and friendships. But friendship alone is not enough.
但仅有友谊是不够的。在全球经济发生深刻变革之际，我们必须将这一信任基础转化为新的投资、创新和增长。
At a time of profound change in the global economy, we must turn that foundation of trust into new investment, innovation and growth. Geopolitical uncertainty is reshaping investment and supply chains.
地缘政治的不确定性正在重塑投资和供应链。技术正在改变金融市场，企业和政府都不得不以不同方式思考韧性问题。
Technology is transforming financial markets, and businesses and governments alike are having to think differently about resilience. For internationally connected economies like ours, turning inward is not the answer.
对于像我们这样国际联系紧密的经济体而言，向内封闭不是答案。日本和英国通过更紧密合作大有可为，而金融服务应成为这一伙伴关系的核心。
Japan and the U.K. have much to gain from working more closely together, and financial services should be central to that partnership. One opportunity lies in the technologies reshaping finance.
一个机遇在于重塑金融业的技术。从代币化和数字资产到人工智能，创新正在改变资本流动和市场运作方式。日本和英国在这一领域都有雄心，也都明白创新归根结底取决于信心和信任。
From tokenization and digital assets to artificial intelligence, innovation is changing how capital moves and markets operate. Japan and the U.K. both have ambitions in this space, and both understand that innovation ultimately depends on confidence and trust. That makes cooperation between the Japan and U.K. financial sectors paramount.
这使得日英金融界的合作至关重要。监管机构间更紧密的对话，以及我们金融机构与创新者之间更深度的协作，能够支持市场不仅更具创新性，而且更加互联和韧性更强。韧性本身提供了另一个机遇。
Closer dialogue between regulators and greater collaboration between our financial institutions and innovators can support markets that are not only more innovative, but more connected and resilient. Resilience itself offers another opportunity. The lessons and expertise that Japan has gained through preparing for natural catastrophes are recognized around the world.
日本通过备灾积累的经验和专长举世公认。伦敦汇聚了专业保险和再保险领域的深厚专业知识，承保范围涵盖自然灾害、基础设施、网络威胁和新兴技术等风险。
London is home to deep expertise in specialty insurance and reinsurance, covering risks from natural disasters and infrastructure to cyber threats and emerging technologies. There is real potential in bringing those strengths together.
将这些优势结合起来蕴藏着真正的潜力。保险公司、投资者和政策制定者之间的更紧密合作，可以开发融资风险的新方式，并吸引私人资本投入韧性建设。目标不应仅仅是在冲击发生时更有效地复苏，而应是建设从一开始就更能抵御冲击的经济体。然而，也许最大的机遇在于资本。
Closer cooperation between insurers, investors and policymakers can develop new ways to finance risk and attract private capital into resilience. The goal should not simply be to recover more effectively when shocks occur, but to build economies better able to withstand them in the first place. Perhaps the greatest opportunity, however, is capital. Japan is changing how it thinks about investment, asset management and the role of capital in supporting economic growth.
日本正在改变其对投资、资产管理以及资本在支持经济增长中所扮演角色的看法。英国也在探讨许多相同的问题，特别是长期私人投资如何能更好地支持基础设施、创新型企业和可持续增长。两国的切入点不同，但这恰恰是机遇所在。
The U.K. is asking many of the same questions, particularly how long-term private investment can better support infrastructure, innovative companies and sustainable growth. Our countries approach this from different starting points, but that is precisely where the opportunity lies. Stronger connections between Japanese and British financial institutions can give investors greater choice, create new partnerships and connect capital with productive opportunities in both countries.
加强日英金融机构之间的联系，可以为投资者提供更多选择，创造新的合作伙伴关系，并将资本与两国的生产性机遇相连接。我们的雄心应超越本国海岸线。
And our ambition should extend beyond our own shores. Japan and the U.K. are both outward-looking economies with deep relationships across Asia and the world.
日本和英国都是向外看的经济体，与亚洲及世界各地有着深厚的关系。通过将日本的资本和专业知识与伦敦的国际金融网络相结合，我们的机构可以在转型金融等领域通力合作，并动员投资流向快速增长的经济体，包括东南亚国家联盟（ASEAN）成员国。
By bringing together Japanese capital and expertise with London's international financial networks, our institutions can work together in areas such as transition finance and the mobilization of investment into fast-growing economies, including across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN. That matters at a moment when economic fragmentation risks pulling countries apart.
在经济碎片化有将国家拉向分裂之际，这一点至关重要。面对更大的不确定性，回应不应是减少受信任伙伴之间的国际合作，而应是加强合作。这一原则是我们周一在伦敦金融城庆祝的“日本日”核心所在。
The response to greater uncertainty should not be less international cooperation between trusted partners, but more. That principle sits at the heart of Japan Day which we celebrate at the City of London on Monday. When Japanese and British business and financial leaders come together in London, we are celebrating a relationship built over generations.
当日本和英国的商界及金融界领袖齐聚伦敦，我们正在庆祝一段跨越数代建立的关系。但我们也应当思考，这段关系的下一代能够实现什么。
But we should also ask what the next generation of that relationship can achieve. The City of London Corporation and Tokyo Metropolitan Government have worked in partnership since 2017.
伦敦金融城市政团与东京都政府自2017年起建立合作伙伴关系。如今，我们有机会进一步深化这种合作精神，将我们的金融机构、投资者、创新者和政策制定者汇聚在一起，共同应对将定义未来几十年的挑战。
Today there is an opportunity to take that spirit of cooperation further, bringing together our financial institutions, investors, innovators and policymakers around the challenges that will define the coming decades. Japan and the U.K. will not always approach those challenges in exactly the same way.
日本和英国应对这些挑战的方式并不总是完全相同。我们的市场、机构和经历各不相同。但最稳固的伙伴关系并非建立在完全一致之上，而是建立在信任、互补优势以及相互学习的意愿之上。
Our markets, institutions and experiences are different. But the strongest partnerships are not built on being identical. They are built on trust, complementary strengths and a willingness to learn from one another.
从新兴技术到韧性建设和长期投资，我们有许多可以共同建设的领域。
From emerging technology to resilience and long-term investment, there is much we can build together.
我们的友谊根基深厚。我们现在的任务是确保从中孕育的机遇能延伸得同样深远。
Our friendship has deep roots. Our task now is to ensure the opportunities that grow from it reach just as far.