Prices of 3000 products to rise from Tuesday ! By the way, is anyone’s salary increasing?

https://japantoday.com/category/national/prices-of-3-000-products-to-rise-from-tuesday-postal-rates-also-going-up

6 Comments

  1. Lol. My wife’s salary increased by 5000 yen per month but then had her bonus whacked by 3% so very little net gain.

  2. Freak_Out_Bazaar on

    Yes, but slowly.

    I don’t really expect salary increases to catch up to the current round of inflation though, since the economy is still crap at its core. This isn’t the early 90’s when inflation was happening because people could afford to pay but rather due to higher expenditures for manufacturing and logistics.
    But as with any economic event it will eventually come to an end when people just can not afford things anymore or the economical landscape improves

  3. Forsaken-Cattle152 on

    Just the beginning – there are several internationally price-regulated products like lego that are comically cheap right now in Japan due to exchange rate – so either prices go up or exchange rate normalizes