By that day, 195 major food manufacturers had announced price increases for 6,121 items in the January-April period of 2025, an increase of approximately 60% from the same period last year. Large-scale price increases are scheduled for frozen foods and sweets from February to March, and for alcoholic beverages in April. Read more from the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
>>1 Price increases aren’t a bad thing. The problem is that wage increases are not keeping up with rising prices. The reason wages in Japan aren’t rising is because of social security costs. Even if money is distributed to people who rely on social security, such as pensioners and those on welfare, and whose incomes do not increase through economic activity, they will try to maximize the effect of that money by purchasing cheaper products. Trading companies trying to meet that demand then import cheaper substitutes from third countries, filling the Japanese market with cheaper goods. Companies that rely on domestic demand will compensate for rising raw material costs caused by rising import prices by suppressing employee wages, making prices affordable for people who rely on social security to support their livelihoods. What Japan needs is not lower prices but cutting social security costs.
Even if you go out and have fun in the city, what would cost a single person 2,000 yen per trip will cost 10,000 yen if you have children. Even if you’re at home, you still need to pay for utilities, food, and the size of your house and car needs to accommodate the number of people. Let this continue for 10 or 20 years and you’ll see a huge disparity.
Because if you guys don’t protest, don’t go on strike, don’t vote, you just obediently become slaves every day lol. Naturally the higher-ups will be happy with this and continue exploiting you.
I’d like to ask someone who really knows about this, will the sudden rise in prices of everything result in less work for small and medium-sized local sash manufacturing companies? Will they go out of business?
>>21 I went to buy gas last Saturday, but I didn’t think it had gone up that much. Kerosene is even worse. What the hell is 130 yen? That’s the same price as gasoline was a while ago. I’ll never forgive the Middle East.
As a result of the weak yen, what the Japanese got was hardship, a declining birthrate, and a country being bought up by foreigners. Good thing you’re waking up from this nightmare.
Even during the rush to return home for the holidays, households with children will have to pay a certain amount for each person. Gasoline is expensive, but a car might be cheaper.
>>34 The deflationary period where prices haven’t risen for 30 years is abnormal. From now on, prices will rise by 2-3% every year, and that’s the normal state of the world.
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