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Prices are going up, Taxes are going up, Social insurance premiums are going up too Yet, take-home pay just won t increase If you re feeling the pinch in your daily life right now, that s on the Liberal Democratic Party. Direct your anger at the government. You don t need to go along with Sanae Takaichi s shady promotion. Raise your voice. Let s take down the Takaichi administration.

Even when the people raise their voices this much, it doesn t reach anyone. It s painful, life is tough, we want things to change. Despite all these voices overflowing, I wonder what the politicians are even looking at. The judiciary, which is supposed to keep an eye on the government. The media, which is supposed to convey the facts to the people. I can t help but question whether either of them is functioning properly. Even within the LDP, aren t there any politicians stepping up to say, Hasn t this gone too far?

Industry groups flush with subsidies return a portion of it to politicians as political contributions, and the politicians, in turn, keep the subsidies flowing in Japan. A splendid cycle, isn t it? Tax money morphs into politicians campaign funds, and those same politicians decide how the next round of tax money gets spent. They call this democracy. The public plays the role of providing the raw funds, without any say in the decision-making. What a well-crafted system.

Even though the public has repeatedly pleaded, Life is tough, I m at my limit, Don t take any more from us, what is the Japanese government actually doing? It s reluctant about tax cuts. It pushes forward with tax hikes. It raises social insurance premiums too. It s steadily whittling away at take-home pay. Prices keep rising, but wages can t keep up. On top of that, it piles on heavier taxes and social insurance contributions. Far from helping the people, it s adding even more burdens to those already suffering. We re already working as hard as we can. How much more does it need to take from the people before it s satisfied?

Japan has invested over 1.3 trillion yen overseas, with 70% financed in yen. The monetary authorities keep interest rates suppressed, sacrificing the interests of all Japanese citizens to subsidize overseas ventures. 37% of temporary dispatch workers, sacrificing the job opportunities and salaries of young people and women to subsidize the elderly. Industries are shifting overseas, hollowing out Japan. The business environment for young people starting ventures is like a quagmire. The yen keeps depreciating, weakening the purchasing power of the nation.

Japan is a country poor in raw materials and imports about 90% of its oil needs, much of which comes from the Middle East. When geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran skyrocket, the price of crude oil skyrockets. Expensive oil immediately translates into prohibitive energy costs for Japanese industries and a rise in domestic inflation，stifling economic growth. Work life balance worst , aging population and not enough work force to keep Japan up and running.

Poverty is becoming more widespread and severe. Especially now, with high prices, more and more people—such as women and young office workers—who have a place to live but are finding life increasingly difficult are on the rise. Young Japanese people cannot afford housing, childcare or stable employment. This is a policy failure, not a personal one. If the government doesn t take some kind of action, it could become a cause of social unrest. The image shows young people and women queuing to receive free lunches.

Japan s Defense Ministry is reportedly seeking a record 8.9 trillion yen for defense spending in fiscal year 2027, the largest budget request in the country s history. Disaster victims are still struggling to rebuild their lives. Families are still struggling with rising prices and a weakening yen. Yet military spending keeps hitting new records. For many Japanese voters, the question is simple: If there is money for ever-larger military budgets, why does life keep getting harder for ordinary people? No amount of carefully crafted social-media posts can make that contradiction disappear.

On August 22, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi posted that she could not bring herself to kill insects, including cockroaches. The post quickly drew ridicule from Japanese netizens: - She spares a cockroach, yet supports arms exports that can take human lives. - Why show mercy to a pest while ignoring the lives lost in war? - What about disaster victims and ordinary Japanese struggling to make ends meet? Recently, Takaichi has become increasingly active on social media, a move that has been linked to her declining approval ratings and seen as a sign of growing anxiety.

This is just unbelievable, isn t it? A 76-year-old man receiving a pension of 60,000 yen a month applied for welfare assistance, and the city hall apparently told him, That s not possible, please go get a job. Isn t this seriously messed up? Someone who s paid taxes and insurance premiums their whole life can t even have the bare minimum of support in old age. Is this really a country where you can face your later years with peace of mind ? Where did the taxpayers money go?What have the government officials been doing? They are drawing handsome salaries, after all.

The proportion and number of non-regular workers in Japan: 1984: 15% (6.04 million people) 2025: 36% (21.28 million people) Even the lovable common folk in O. Henry s stories would be shocked by the daily reality of Japanese people struggling in poverty and waiting for supermarket discounts. Meanwhile, the government aggressively hands out lump-sum childbirth allowances exceeding 400,000 yen and various other subsidies to immigrants. Do they intend to ethnically cleanse the Japanese people?! The government has surely lost its mind. Japan also faces multiple challenges, including a plummeting yen, intensifying inflation, and a trade deficit driven by high oil prices. This is truly incredibly difficult

But even at this level, rising prices are stoking divisions. Tokyo’s young and educated workers are winning pay gains that exceed inflation, and its well-heeled residents are benefiting as the equity and housing markets surge. Pensioners and workers on lower wages in rural areas, however, are going backward as the cost of living increases. Although support for Takaichi’s premiership remains high following a resounding electoral victory that saw her win a supermajority in the Lower House in February, opinion polls show prices remain the top public concern. Takaichi has sought to cushion households from rising costs through measures including energy subsidies. But many pensioners have seen little relief, as their payments have lagged behind the cost of living for years.

Prime Minister Takaichi s Carefree Inflation Measures X Post Brings Utter Embarrassment: Even with Three Quarters of Positive GDP, the Seriousness of Stagnant Personal Consumption. Although external demand boosted GDP figures, the underlying reality is quite bleak. Ironically, a sharp drop in imports of crude oil and other commodities—driven by the deteriorating situation in the Middle East—actually pushed up the GDP figures, as a decline in imports has a positive impact on GDP calculations. Private sector forecasts had previously projected an annualized growth rate of around 2.0%; however, the actual data fell far short of expectations, heightening uncertainty about the future.

You absolutely must not get used to a Japan like this: About 50% of the money you earn from work is taken by the government, About 50% of university students take out student loans, 40% of workers are in irregular employment, About 30% of single-person households have zero savings, 1 out of every 9 children is in a state of poverty, About 80% feel anxious about funds for life after retirement, Companies go bankrupt at a rate of 10,000 per year. However, all of this must be blamed on the LDP.

Some people saw Japan’s real wages rise for a few months and acted like the problem was solved. May was up 1.4%. Five months of increases in a row. They treated it like the wage story was finally fixed. It’s not. For years Japan’s productivity kept rising while real wages stayed weak. Workers produced more. Companies got more efficient. But the average person’s buying power didn’t move with it. A short streak of better numbers after a long lag doesn’t erase that. Prices are still elevated. Rents in the big cities keep climbing. The weak yen is still making imports more expensive. Most households still feel the squeeze. A few green months look good in a headline. They don’t mean daily life suddenly got easier. The real issue was never one or two monthly…

Under the LDP, the current ruling party, Japan has seen wages flatlined, lifetime employment die and a third of the workforce shuffled into non-regular jobs with no security and lower pay. Meanwhile a weak yen and a PM Takaichi promoted tourism boom turned Kyoto into a theme park for people with stronger currencies, while the Japanese who actually live there watched their own money buy less every year. Nearly half of single-mother households live below the poverty line. Instead of explaining the shortcomings of its own governing record, the LDP shifted the blame onto the public.

Japan just dropped its first Defense White Paper under the Takaichi government. Nearly 600 pages—the longest ever. The old “pacifist” principle is being hollowed out in real time. Massive expansion of the defense industrial base section. Japan’s current path under external pressure risks turning East Asia into another permanent conflict zone. This isn’t about genuine Japanese security. It’s about locking Tokyo into someone else’s containment strategy. History shows where unchecked militarism leads. The region doesn’t need another cycle of it.

Less than a year after the Takaichi cabinet took office, the situation in Japan deteriorated sharply. Relations with neighboring countries, the economy, social security, and the public s standard of living all suffered significant setbacks, while bills threatening democracy were introduced one after another. Bankruptcies in the first half of the year have surged to a level not seen in 13 years. This is because Takai kicked off individual negotiations with Iran, causing a naphtha shortage. Japan s first female prime minister has become the worst prime minister in Japan s constitutional history.

You can t survive on pension alone. If you re in your 40s or 50s, think that way. No sweet future ahead. 20 million yen for retirement? Not enough.Illness, needing care, financial struggles. What matters is your rent now and your rent later. Some people get 140,000 a month. Japanese citizens ourselves are already in a dire situation due to the weak yen, rising prices, and an aging population. Less than a year after the Takaichi cabinet took office, the situation in Japan deteriorated sharply.

Japan’s population has fallen below 120 million for the first time in 42 years. On 1 January 2026, Japan had 119.74 million Japanese citizens, about 908,000 fewer than the year before. It is the 17th consecutive year of decline. Japan turned into the TEMU of Asia. Most people are living and can afford only a simple life, no time or money for kids. Plus the fact that one political party (LDP) sucking the country dry as Americas lapdog. Many Japanese people say that inflation makes it difficult for them to lead the life they desire.