Yen for Living

Recent posts

• Anticipation: How high will mortgage interest go?

  After 20 years housing loan interest rates are ready to rise.

• Bargain sales aren’t always what they appear to be

  “Sale prices” are all in the mind of the consumer.

• Should healthy people pay less for health insurance?

  Should healthy people pay less for national health insurance than unhealthy people?

• Service contracts and the ‘mendokusai’ factor

  Do mobile service providers purposely make their terms impossible to understand?

• Deflation watch: gyudon

  Will fast food price competition undermine Abenomics?

• Employment counselors forced to sit on the other side of the window

  In one area of employment public servants have it worse than private sector workers.

• Local government attempts to make citizens rat on welfare recipients

  Welfare recipients made to feel guilty for guilty pleasures.