Subject
Cost of living
Wages sit still while price tags move. Under this subject, people describe their own household budgets — usually well before the statistics catch up.
- An article reported that Japan had dropped out of China's top ten holiday destinations. I read all 354 comments. Exactly one person wrote that he lives on that money - it holds 1 agree and 100 disagrees At 3:29am on 1 October 2026, Kyodo News reported on Yahoo! Read →
- A YouTuber promised to save Japan's rice farmers, and eighteen months later the project had stalled. The 1,197 people in the comments said he had used everyone for the clicks — but not one of them had bought the rice, and only one named it At ten past six on the evening of 22 September 2026, the weekly SmartFLASH ran a story on Yahoo! Read →
- Mercari's share price fell about thirty per cent in a month. I counted 1,139 comments: 92 to 8. But 79 per cent of the thread never mentions the share price at all. What came back was the answer to a different question — should this company exist? At 16:25 on Wednesday 16 September 2026, ITmedia NEWS published a story on Yahoo! Read →
- A day at Tokyo Disney can now reach 100,000 yen for a family of four. I read all 839 comments — and the line the page agreed with most was not a complaint about the price Tokyo Disney Resort is raising prices again. Read →
- A ¥5 billion hit. What Japan agreed with was the day labour. The Chiikawa film took ¥5bn in fourteen days. Read →
- COVID in a Kumamoto Shelter: Why Disaster-Prone Japan Still Sleeps on Gym Floors A COVID case hit a Kumamoto quake shelter with no partitions, one isolation room, and 8,000+ evacuees. Read →
- "Where's the funding?" — 7,805 Japanese comments ask why that is their problem An LDP lawmaker opposed a temporary food tax cut, warning the bill would fall on the next generation. Read →