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.
- A ¥5 billion hit. What Japan agreed with was the day labour. The Chiikawa film took ¥5bn in fourteen days. The article is a story about money — and the comment section refused to be. Every comment counting somebody else's earnings failed to gain votes, and the single most rejected line read a box office figure as a personal defeat.
- 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. Japan's comment section is angry — but not at whom you'd expect.
- "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. The comment thread counted 7,805 — and the anger was not about the tax cut at all.