{"id":372193,"date":"2025-08-25T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372193\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:30:17","slug":"over-90-of-low-income-japanese-families-struggling-to-feed-their-children-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372193\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 90% of low-income Japanese families struggling to feed their children: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 90 per cent of low-income households in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan<\/a> are struggling to afford food for their children due to surging prices and stagnant wages, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The report published last week by international NGO Save The Children also shows that around 60 per cent of these households have reduced or stopped buying staple items, such as rice, due to high costs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The June survey covered 7,850 households \u2013 including about 14,000 children \u2013 with monthly incomes of 112,200 yen (US$760) for a family of two, typically a single parent and child, and 151,000 yen for a family of four.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Inflation in Japan rose to 2.7 per cent last year, the highest in almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In July, core consumer prices rose by 3.1 per cent from a year earlier, according to government data released on Friday. Food prices, excluding fresh items, soared by 8.3 per cent, although energy and other prices fell marginally.<\/p>\n<p>Rice prices have doubled in the last year, partly due to supply shortages caused by substandard crops and a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3294815\/japan-so-awash-tourists-business-travellers-are-resorting-capsule-hotels?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">surge in tourists<\/a> in Japan.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tourists look at the fruit for sale at a market in Tokyo on Friday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6499a996-fbad-4f08-99f3-3416dcc6c424_5d38dfdf.jpg\" title=\"Tourists look at the fruit for sale at a market in Tokyo on Friday. Photo: AFP\"\/>Tourists look at the fruit for sale at a market in Tokyo on Friday. 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