The Nomad comments

At his age he should have started spending bis money and enjoy the few more years he's got left.

Already down 20 percent because yen is 16 yen stronger and stocks are down about 20 percent except for the magnificent 7

Basic economics 101, spend less than you earn, something we learn in high school. Seems that the Japanese government hasn't paid attention in class. Since Abe 2012 they have spent more every fiscal year and every year they said the same thing, we need to raise taxes to pay down the debt, guess they learned very quick that the Japanese are gullible enough to feed the same narrative without questions asked . A day will come it will bite them back

Already chickened out. A week ago they were so certain the timing was right and another couple of hikes before the end of the year would be on the table. When they tanked the stock market they started scratching their heads, damn those carry traders

What's there to celebrate? Stocks are still 5 percent down compared to yesterday. Only people who bought at the end yesterday made 15-25 percent on some stocks, they are the only ones who made money

A weak yen does more harm than good. A strong yen takes our salary closer to the other developed countries and makes life cheaper for the average family. A weak yen only benefits export and trading companies and we pay only more for everything. And a few tourists less because of the strong yen will eliminate the overtourisn dilemma. Yen back to 110 gets my support!

You can't do much with 58.000 yen. I'm planning to visit a friend for a couple of nights, stay at his place. Even then I'm budgeting 50.000 for highway, gas and eating for 2.

Ueda told the press conference on Wednesday that he feels "sorry" that the high inflation rate has been forcing households to shoulder increased burdens.

So having said that, you increase the burden on the citizens by increasing the interest rate so their mortgage, car loans en other interest bearing loans go up.

Wonderful Ueda!

Utter BS! Where does this end once it starts? First restaurants,,then temples, taxis? Supermarkets, clothing stores? It will be a mess! Do foreign residents have to start a discussion every day and every establishment ti convince the staff that they are entitled to pay the lower price? The price you see should be the price to everyone. Did they offer a discount when the dollar hit 75 yen around 2010?

In the meanwhile, they hold regular citizens in custody for 20 days to gather information and keep extending it for as long as they need, thus hold people hostage. How many politicians have gone to prison in the last 20 years?

Becoming a new hobby of local towns to put up fences? Are we going to block every tourist attraction to fend off unruly tourists? Next stop Asakusa

Typical Japanese way to overcomplicate things and then wonder why it hasn't succeeded. Why would people willingly give up so much personal info and be pressured to get married? So what's next, you get kicked out of the app if you've met 3 people and still haven't picked a mating partner?

Clearly a place to avoid that is xenophobic and tries to grab more money from foreigners just because the Japanese yen is weak and they can "afford" the premium? His excuse of making life a bit cheaper for the Japanese is utter BS. People who can afford almost 6000 yen for lunch can fork out another 1000 yen. Btw, isn't this illegal?

Yeah right, keep trying to fool us. Wanted to change the oil for my car today but didn't. Prices went up about 70 percent in 3 months, shocking. Soon people won't be able to do the simplest things in life

Didn't hear Japan condemning the embassy attack, wouldn't Japan retaliate if their embassy with high ranking officials in it was bombed?

A while back an article said Japan households had the highest savings ever and now 63 percent have financial hardship. Wonder which one to believe. With house/condo prices up 28 percent in a year and car prices up 20 percent inflation is close to 30 percent

Very harsh punishment for stealing just some fruit. Steal or embezzle millions as an executive or politician and you walk away with a slap on the wrist

So a plane clips wings with another plane and they need to investigate if it's a manufacturing fault? What a silly conclusion

I'm in Europe at the moment, inflation has hit the average Joe very hard but people still spend more than a measly 45.000 yen. Prices have gone up by 100 percent or some products even by 200 percent compared to 4 years ago. You live only once mentality makes people spend

Taiwanisnotchina

What I'm getting at is that they need to live in the largest houses, with pools, drive the largest cars and must have the highest salaries. Look at the American policies, force countries to cater them or they'll be boycotted or isolated. The Americans need to keep benefitting, no matter what.

Yup, the biggest consumers in the world. It might be a good idea to slow down for a while, better for the wallet and better for the environment. Why do they think they are the only ones who deserve to have a good life?

Welcome to the new world where you have different views you get canceled, fired, muted or down voted. Free speech, if we agree or not with the person, doesn't exist anymore. Better to keep your political, social, sexual or environmental ideas/ opinions to yourself.

It's just a show. His numbers are down so he thinks appointing a few extra women will do the job

It's ridiculous to expect people to walk around with trash in their hands. Shops and cities should provide trashcans, you like the visitors keep coming and spend their dough? Provide basic sanitary services. Having said that, stations and major shopping streets should have them too

The utter insanity of some countries, with Dubai on top. We are being told to consume less and not to travel on the name of global warming and preserving the environment and nobody blinks an eye when businesses and countries waste resources

Thank you! I've offloaded about 70 percent of my stocks in the past 2 days. Going short now as a crash is imminent. Debt ceiling will be resolved but with big cuts in spending and we are going to enter a recession. Some European countries already have shrunk in the last quarter.and with sky high inflation we'll have a nice recession with stocks retreating 20 percent or more this year

When politicians overpromise and underdeliver it's bound to happen again and again. I'm not saying what happened is a good thing but maybe the politicians should be more careful of what they say and if the things they promise have a chance of execution. Their implementations have an impact on real people's lives so if they don't deliver on their promises they upset some people and some nutshells might opt for an attack on their life to show their frustrations

Don't know any legit massage parlors which are open after midnight. Wasn't it one of those hand job places that disguise as massage parlors?

It's not only hotels, ever tried to get a new phone subscription? Last time I got a new phone for my daughter, I refused and told them it's not mandatory as I pay with my credit card. I said it's discrimination right in their face and they called yahoo mobile to verify and confirmed it was not necessary. Lots of these establishments standard ask for id but if you point out there is no need they comply. Same with banks

Very convenient to leave out the food prices and energy bills in the inflation numbers. This way you can make it look more reasonable. The problem is that 60 percent of your expenditures is food, energy and mortgage/rent