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Japan-based backend software dev.
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Cake day: August 14th, 2024
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All prices have been rising with the combination of corona and Russia (where we get a lot of petrochem from, especially after the reactors were shuttered in response to the tsunami 14 years ago today). Wages sank for the first time in 3 months. A fair amount of belt-tightening is going on. The rice is in part due to bad weather -> bad harvests. There is also some protectionism involved, but I’m certainly no expert on that (I am a small-scale farmer who started last year, but don’t do rice). Japanese also prefer short-grain rice, so I don’t think we would see other varieties flying off the shelves unless things get really desperate.
A lot are worried that we will see consumption tax increase again (it was either 3 or 5% when I first came and went to 8% to now 10%), perhaps even to 20%. Japan is in for a rough road if things don’t change.
All prices have been rising with the combination of corona and Russia (where we get a lot of petrochem from, especially after the reactors were shuttered in response to the tsunami 14 years ago today). Wages sank for the first time in 3 months. A fair amount of belt-tightening is going on. The rice is in part due to bad weather -> bad harvests. There is also some protectionism involved, but I’m certainly no expert on that (I am a small-scale farmer who started last year, but don’t do rice). Japanese also prefer short-grain rice, so I don’t think we would see other varieties flying off the shelves unless things get really desperate.
A lot are worried that we will see consumption tax increase again (it was either 3 or 5% when I first came and went to 8% to now 10%), perhaps even to 20%. Japan is in for a rough road if things don’t change.