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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Yeah, shit is NOT good over here. Prices on basic necessities have soared but wages haven’t appreciably changed in, legit, 20 years. People are sick of Kishida and hours approval rates are in the tank because he’s raised taxes while inflation has meant basic goods is up. Japan is not a good example right now.

    Here’s an article I read a few days ago on the inflation over here Notice how they leave out the cost of food and energy calculating things. Plus, that talk about:

    Energy prices dropped 8.7 percent, weighed down by government subsidies for lowering gasoline and other fuel costs to support households. The fall was smaller than the previous month’s 11.7 percent.

    sounds nice until you consider it had shot up between 24-48% depending on where you’re getting power from (I’m lucky. I’m in Osaka so prices only went up about 25%. They went up 48% in Hokkaido).