I'll show increase the tax cases. Kishida did these "amazing" things... I guess Japan is become the America in a bad way.
The Kishida Cabinet's approval rating of 16% is still high... ・Decrease in pension payment amount ・Pension paid until age 65 ・Increase in social insurance premium burden ・Promote defense tax increase ・Spread over 30 trillion yen overseas ・Increase in employment insurance premiums ・Promoting the abolition of insurance cards ・Introduced invoice ・Reject consumption tax reduction ・Reject gasoline tax reduction
> I guess Japan is become the America in a bad way.
I think things will get worse before they get better, unfortunately.
> ・Decrease in pension payment amount
Ah, see, this is one of the reasons for issuing more currency to create rapid inflation: it's a means of draining old people's savings. If they are also lowering the pension, it means they're trying really hard to lower the impact. Kind of dirty, but politicians are politicians and most of them are treating their country like a top-down centralized economy, like the USSR. I don't think this kind of thing can last long.
As for the rest of it, it seems the economy was already strained, I saw a lot of Japanese people on here complain about the effect of the Olympics, and then the JPY-USD exchange rate, and it seems things are getting worse.