Economy
Economy
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Japan's Refundable Tax Credit Starts in FY2029 — the Registration Rate for the Public Benefit Account It Rests On Is About 50%, and the Rest Still Need Their Consent Confirmed
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Regular Employment Among Japan's Employment Ice Age Generation Rose by 110,000 in Five Years Against a Target of 300,000 — the Government Adds 200,000 Company Officers to Reach "310,000 in Total"
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About a Fifth of Choshi's Seafood Processors Have Failed or Effectively Closed — Imported Mackerel Cost 2.6 Times More per Kilo Than a Decade Ago, and Domestic Landings Fell 46.9%
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Tungsten Prices Doubled in a Year and World Output Rose 3.7% — China Holds 78.8% of Mine Production
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Trucking's "Appropriate Cost" — Can a Legal Floor Stop Rates Thinning Toward the Bottom of Multi-Tier Subcontracting?
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Inherited Forest Land Without Clear Boundaries — Negative Assets and the Making of Owner-Unknown Land
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Farm Machinery That Runs Only Days a Year — The Structure That Keeps Individual Ownership Locked In
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Securing Crew in Japanese Fisheries — A Primary-Sector Labor Crisis and the Risk of Structural Shutdown
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Japan's 2025 Births Fall to 671,000 — 15 Years Ahead of Projections, Even as Marriages Rose
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Financial Income in Insurance Premiums by FY2028 — Fixing the Anomaly Where Filing a Tax Return Raises Your Premium
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The Day Income Stops — Reading Japan's Social Insurance Gap in Platform Delivery Work
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Japan's 2026 Social Insurance Burden Rush — ¥4,800 More a Year at a ¥6M Income
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Where Did 1.3 Trillion Yen in Hometown Tax Go? — The Redistribution That Never Reaches 'the Regions'
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¥1,500 Minimum Wage Target: 45% of SMEs Already Forced to Raise Pay, But Price Pass-Through Stalls at 50%
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A Civil-Law Approach to Unsolicited Sales Emails: Transferring Receiver Costs to Senders
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The End of Real Estate Tax Avoidance: Japan's Inheritance Tax '5-Year Rule' and the Structural Closure of Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Routes
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Who Gets the ¥9.5 Trillion? — Questioning Japan's 'Tourism Nation' Without Residents
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Structural Analysis of Foreign Aid Budget Allocation: Does the ODA vs. Domestic Welfare Tradeoff Hold?
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The Core of Japan's Declining Birthrate Is Not Childcare Support: Interrogating How 140 Trillion Yen of Social Expenditure Is Split
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Corporate Tax as Indirect Tax — How the Defense Surtax Reaches Citizens' Wallets
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Japan's 1.13 Fertility Rate — The 2015 Turning Point When Married Couples Stopped Having Children
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5.26% Wage Hike, Fourth Straight Year of Negative Real Wages — How Japan's Triple Squeeze Works
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The Structure of Japan's 55% Inheritance Tax — What the World's Highest Rate Really Means
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Aid Abroad, Neglect at Home? Unpacking Japan's ODA Critique and Fiscal Reality
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Gen Z Is Not Lazy: The Structural Trap That Makes "Not Working" a Rational Choice in Japan
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Fertility Rate 1.15 on a ¥7.3 Trillion Budget: Evaluating Three Years of Japan's Children and Families Agency
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The Structure of Price Hikes — Why Only Food Keeps Rising
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Japan's ¥135.5 Trillion Social Security Breakdown — Pensions 41.6%, Healthcare 33.6%, and a ¥65M Generational Gap
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Japan's Consumption Tax Regressivity Depends on the Lens — Effective Burden Rates and the Social Insurance Blind Spot
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Why Wages Don't Feel Higher Despite 5%+ Shunto Gains — The Structure Behind Four Consecutive Years of Negative Real Wages
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Industries Where Wages Rose or Fell Over 30 Years — Real Wages by Industry in One Chart
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Business Manager Visa Capital Requirement Raised 6x to ¥30 Million — 96% of Current Holders Fall Short
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Why Don't Wages Rise Despite 'Labor Shortages'? — The Structure of a Labor Market Where Supply and Demand Fail
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The Paradox of Population Decline and Record Tax Revenue — How Much Has Per Capita Tax Burden Increased?
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Generational Pension Disparities Visualized by Birth Year — What Differs Between Those Born in 1940 and 2000
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Is "Half Your Income Goes to Taxes" True? — The Reality Behind Japan's 46% National Burden Rate
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The Four Layers of "Stealth Tax Increases" — How the End of Flat-Rate Cuts, Rising Social Insurance, the Invoice System, and Defense Surtax Erode Take-Home Pay
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Structural Problems in Agriculture and Food Security——Reading the Meaning of 38% Self-Sufficiency
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A 5-Million-Yen Salary in One Chart — Where ¥1.1M Goes, and How It Compares to 10 Years Ago
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The Silent Erosion of Disposable Income — How Inflation and Rising Social Insurance Premiums Are Squeezing Household Finances in 2026
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The Structure of Gasoline Double Taxation — The 'Tax on Tax' Problem That Persists After Provisional Rate Abolition
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Is ESG Investment Solving Social Issues? — Questioning the 'Additionality' of a $30 Trillion Market
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Renewable Energy and the Regional Economy — New Inequalities Born of the Energy Transition
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The Economic Rationality of Preventive Medicine: Social Design in the Era of 48 Trillion Yen Healthcare Costs
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