Yen for Living

Recent posts

• Say goodbye to plentiful, affordable shrimp

  Due to poor production at Asian fish farms, shrimp stocks are shrinking.

• Blood on the tracks: Who pays for deadly railway accidents?

  It’s true: Railways demand money from families whose members die in train accidents.

• Government wondering how to tap burgeoning ebook market

  The consumption tax increase gives overseas vendors an advantage.

• Lower egg prices bad for producers, worse for chickens

  The government aims to control egg prices by any means necessary.

• Where there’s a will: Attitudes toward inheritance change

  Japanese baby boomers are facing up to the responsibilities of dying.

• Young women’s life preferences acknowledge workplace reality

  It’s not that young women prefer home over work, it’s that they don’t think they can have both.

• You are where you eat: McDonald’s Japan sets prices by region

  McDonald’s has found that it won’t lose customers if it raises prices.