http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/small-businesses-ask-for-restraint-with-the-self-restraint/ How to make, save and spend money in Japan. Tue, 21 May 2013 23:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/small-businesses-ask-for-restraint-with-the-self-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-46723 Paddy Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:26:14 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=2343#comment-46723 I agree with most of points. The only one about electricity, I do disagree. Electricity is saved mostly due to shortage in production. I feel electricity must be saved to max possible & utilized for manufacturing sector.

]]> http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/small-businesses-ask-for-restraint-with-the-self-restraint/comment-page-1/#comment-46636 Miko Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:36:15 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=2343#comment-46636 Not quite related to jishuku, but this morning at the supermarket – a large one in central Kobe – I noticed that many products in the veggie section have been left untouched, especially the leafy greens. I checked the labels for place of origin. None of them were grown in Kanto or Tohoku. Some have been marked down 50%, and customers still aren’t touching them. I really don’t understand this way of thinking. It seems that people don’t trust labels, or official assurances of safety. Actually I can’t blame them.

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