eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There's a phrase called "Ken-fu Ten-nen" It means that if you hold power for ten years, corruption sets in, but with the Takaiichi administration, the recent case of Yana Kazuo made it crystal clear that they've become corrupt in less than a year 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 08/10/2026 Koichi Hagiuda, whom Sanae Takaichi has appointed as the Liberal Democratic Party's acting secretary-general, is the person who created at least approximately 27.28 million yen in "secret funds," and moreover, has attended gatherings of not just groups affiliated with the "Unification Church" 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It was the Liberal Democratic Party that reduced our salaries, increased taxes and social insurance premiums, cut pensions, raised electricity bills, and brought in a large number of problematic foreigners, worsening public safety! But it was us who kept electing that Liberal Democratic Party. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It has been revealed that Sanae Takaichi and other LDP politicians "donated" a total of 1.7 billion yen in public funds, known as "political party subsidies," to themselves. However, the LDP is still continuing the double-dipping of "corporate 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The LDP, as expected, just won't do. Tax revenue is at an all-time high. The national burden rate is about 50%. Nearly half of people's income vanishes into taxes and social insurance premiums. And yet there's zero sense that life has gotten any better. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The first thing Ms. Takaichi must do is flood countermeasures, yet she shows absolutely no interest in the lives of the citizens. Moreover, the right-wing lawmakers who hold more than two-thirds of the seats in the Diet also show no interest. These are the right-wing lawmakers from the LDP 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Prices are going up, Taxes are going up, Social insurance premiums are going up too Yet, take-home pay just won't increase If you're feeling the pinch in your daily life right now, that's on the Liberal Democratic Party. Direct your anger at the government. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's painful, life is tough, Despite all these voices overflowing, I wonder what the politicians are even looking at. The judiciary, which is supposed to keep an eye on the government. Even within the LDP, aren't there any politicians stepping up to say, "Hasn't this gone too far?" 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hagiwara Koichi 27.28 million yen. Matsuno Koichi 10.51 million yen in slush funds politicians. They deceived the public and created slush funds, but even after getting exposed, they pinned the blame on their secretaries to escape responsibility, and on top of that, they don't even pay taxes 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Prime Minister Takaichi is considering appointing lawmakers involved in the slush fund scandal. And the reason for that is, "They've already faced the public's judgment through two elections."Does going through two elections just wipe away the responsibility for creating slush funds? 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Industry groups flush with subsidies return a portion of it to politicians as political contributions, and the politicians, in turn, keep the subsidies flowing in Japan. A splendid cycle, isn't it? Tax money morphs into politicians' campaign funds 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Even though the public has repeatedly pleaded, "Life is tough," "I'm at my limit," "Don't take any more from us," what is the Japanese government actually doing? It's reluctant about tax cuts. It pushes forward with tax hikes. It raises social insurance premiums too. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Japan has invested over 1.3 trillion yen overseas, with 70% financed in yen. The monetary authorities keep interest rates suppressed, sacrificing the interests of all Japanese citizens to subsidize overseas ventures. The yen keeps depreciating, weakening the purchasing power of the nation. 020
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Expensive oil immediately translates into prohibitive energy costs for Japanese industries and a rise in domestic inflation，stifling economic growth. Work life balance worst , Common people suffer from burden of overwork and underpay. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Poverty is becoming more widespread and severe. Especially now, with high prices, more and more people—such as women and young office workers—who have a place to live but are finding life increasingly difficult are on the rise. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Look at where the money is going. Japan's Defense Ministry is reportedly seeking a record 8.9 trillion yen for defense spending in fiscal year 2027, the largest budget request in the country's history. Disaster victims are still struggling to rebuild their lives. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi posted that she could not bring herself to kill insects, including cockroaches. The post quickly drew ridicule from Japanese netizens: - She spares a cockroach, yet supports arms exports that can take human lives. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is just unbelievable, isn't it? A 76-year-old man receiving a pension of 60,000 yen a month applied for welfare assistance, and the city hall apparently told him, "That's not possible, please go get a job." Isn't this seriously messed up? 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The proportion and number of non-regular workers in Japan: 1984: 15% (6.04 million people) 2025: 36% (21.28 million people) Even the lovable common folk in O. Henry's stories would be shocked by the daily reality of Japanese people struggling in poverty and waiting for supermarket discounts. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 21/08/2026At a time when Japanese households and industries continue to feel the effects of elevated energy costs, the decision to mobilize approximately 1.6 trillion yen in financial support for other countries’ procurement raises a straightforward priority question. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Rising prices are stoking divisions. Tokyo’s young and educated workers are winning pay gains that exceed inflation, and its well-heeled residents are benefiting as the equity and housing markets surge. Pensioners and workers on lower wages in rural areas, however, are going backward. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Prime Minister Takaichi's Carefree "Inflation Measures" X Post Brings Utter Embarrassment: Even with Three Quarters of Positive GDP, the Seriousness of Stagnant Personal Consumption. Although external demand boosted GDP figures, the underlying reality is quite bleak. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 18/08/2026You absolutely must not get used to a Japan like this: About 50% of the money you earn from work is taken by the government, About 50% of university students take out student loans, 40% of workers are in irregular employment, About 30% of single-person households have zero savings and so on. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 17/08/2026For years Japan’s productivity kept rising while real wages stayed weak. Workers produced more. Companies got more efficient. But the average person’s buying power didn’t move with it. A short streak of better numbers after a long lag doesn’t erase that. Prices are still elevated. 001
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Japan is losing its pacifist identity under an authoritarian gov and moving toward debate over nuclear defense. Military spending is prioritized over disaster relief. Citizens protest daily, demanding the gov resign. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Under the LDP, the current ruling party, Japan has seen wages flatlined, lifetime employment die and a third of the workforce shuffled into non-regular jobs with no security and lower pay. Nearly half of single-mother households live below the poverty line. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Life is a struggle for many people in Japan today; they often live in cramped, exorbitantly expensive housing and are exploited by a toxic corporate culture—facing practices such as having to cover their own expenses while on sick leave and being forced to work unpaid overtime without complaint. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The war in the Middle East gave the Takaichi Cabinet an off ramp for this tax cut. But they didn't think of a creative way to use it. Now I can only see the approval rating for the government falling further. It's an own goal. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Turning Tokyo into the Indo-Pacific Ukraine. Japan just dropped its first Defense White Paper under the Takaichi government. Nearly 600 pages—the longest ever. The old “pacifist” principle is being hollowed out in real time. Massive expansion of the defense industrial base section. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Sanae-san, you say that we need to make it so people can work more because living expenses won't cover without overtime, but isn't it the real problem that people can't even make a living working 8 hours a day...? 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Bento shop owner: "I honestly can't lower the prices. I feel this weird guilt about it." It's because ingredient and container procurement costs are rising due to the weak yen and the Middle East situation, and they can't pass on the tax reductions directly to the prices. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 05/08/2026After the Takaichi cabinet took office, the situation in Japan deteriorated sharply. Relations with neighboring countries, the economy, social security, and the public's standard of living all suffered significant setbacks, while bills threatening democracy were introduced one after another. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 04/08/2026You can't survive on pension alone. If you're in your 40s or 50s, think that way. No sweet future ahead. 20 million yen for retirement? Not enough.Illness, needing care, financial struggles. What matters is your rent now and your rent later. Some people get 140,000 a month. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 03/08/2026When 20%+ of japanese salarymen use brothel and sex worker services, work 60+ hours a week and women are treated so horribly, suicide rates among young women continue to spike, this is the result. you can thank the government and media propaganda that push the misogyny and abuse of women 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Japan turned into the TEMU of Asia. Most people are living and can afford only a simple life, no time or money for kids. Plus the fact that one political party (LDP) sucking the country dry as Americas lapdog. Many Japanese say that inflation makes it difficult for them to lead the life they desire. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Japan is hitting its breaking point. Out of a ¥250,000 salary, a massive ¥60,000 vanishes into taxes and insurance, leaving just ¥190,000. No luxury, just survival—while hard-earned money flows abroad. Work hard, get nothing. That’s today’s Japan. 010
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Japan’s Prime Minister is defending the current path… while her approval rating keeps sliding. Sanae Takaichi’s support just fell to 57%, the lowest since she took office. The cost of living is hitting people hard. The weak yen is driving up the price of food, energy, and daily goods 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Japan's national burden rate is currently "45.7%." Nearly half of the money you earn disappears into taxes and social insurance premiums. In 1970, this was "24.3%." In other words, it's nearly doubled in 55 years. Wages aren't going up. Even if they do, half gets taken away. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The Japanese grandma is already 92 years old. She says she works 12 hours a day, it's really exhausting, but there's no choice.Under the manipulation of Japan's right-wing government, Japanese people struggle to make a living, and even at 92, they still have to work—what's the meaning of life? 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Politicians continue to impose more taxes. Ignoring the will of the people—the true sovereigns of the nation—they keep passing laws that many citizens don’t believe are necessary. Fierce demonstrations are taking place across the country against constitutional revision 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Cheap yen seems like a bargain for tourists, but Japanese locals suffer. Yet, the Sanae Takaichi administration is helpless to address this, allowing the situation to persist; why hasn't such an incompetent government stepped down yet? 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Working hard on cheap wages. Many people worry about their careers; even graduates of top-tier institutions like the University of Tokyo sometimes have to make a living by answering questions on TV game shows—hardly an ideal life. That is because you are using your talents solely for personal gain. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 21/07/2026A survey conducted by the Japanese government found that 55.4% of households described their living conditions as "very difficult" .Ordinary people have seen no wage increases—in fact, their real income is shrinking due to rising prices—yet lawmakers still receive full bonuses? It is a complete joke 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Poverty is rising in Japan, but the welfare rolls are shrinking. Applications have climbed five years running, yet only about 22.6% of eligible people actually receive benefits, versus 91.6% in France. Japan stigmatizes poverty. It regards it not as a social ill to be addressed 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 17/07/2026 While nigga Japan is so broke, fucker tax their own citizen to brim and send money to aid 3rd word free loaders! they cannot even make a kid any more due to fucking high cost! Japanese gov solution : import more 3rd world brown people to replace their population to save falling YEN. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Why are Japanese farmers being pushed this far? The cost of fertilizer, fuel, pesticides, machinery and other essential supplies has risen sharply.At the same time, when the supply of rice increases, the price paid to farmers falls. Farmers are being crushed from both sides. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Japan throws away food while its children go hungry, a striking structural contradiction in one of the world’s richest countries. The painful paradox 4.64 million tons of food wasted every year 11.5% child poverty rate, with 50% of children in low-income families lacking adequate meals 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Japan is undertaking an ambitious effort to build a centralized intelligence agency for the first time since World War II.While the young are being forced to work ever longand are faced with higher taxes due to the refusal to allow young migrants to boost the economy. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Unfortunately, a large percentage of the elderly population in Japan cannot afford elderly care facilities or care workers, and their family members are often unable to support them in old age. Many live alone, facing isolation, and some die alone. 000
eleanor40.bsky.social @eleanor40.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Yet instead of rescuing the people and small businesses, it continues to prioritize fiscal discipline. Behind those numbers, small and medium-sized businesses are being crushed by inflation, rising labor costs, social insurance premiums, and the consumption tax. 000
