2021年1月2日 · An astonishing fact: 92 percent of Japanese consider themselves middle-class, according to a labor ministry report published in 2019. That seems to clash with another fact: …

2022年3月21日 · A generation ago, an astonishing 90 percent of Japanese were proud to call themselves “middle class” – meaning what? “Car, color TV, air conditioner” – the “3 Cs” – …

Between 1985 and 2018, the proportion of Japan’s middle class within the national population declined. The decline was particularly large from 1985 to 2000 and stabilized from 2003 to 2018.

2023年10月16日 · Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was described as a “100 million middle-class society,” in which people who worked hard at corporate jobs and had a strong …

2020年7月3日 · As poverty rises in Japan, the country’s middle class is slowly eroding away, according to a recent report by Oxford Economics’ Shigeto Nagai. A “major driving force” …

2008年5月13日 · Japan is no longer described as a general middle-class society (sōchūryū shakai), but as a divided society (kakusa shakai). How can the stark discrepancies of these …

This study identifies changes in the size of the middle class in Japan’s population using microdata from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions …

I'm curious to know what life is like for this part of Japan. I always see upper middle class people being depicted but almost never lower middle class in western media.

2022年9月10日 · Although the Japanese economy is the third largest in the world according to its nominal GDP, its middle class has begun to contract. Unemployment and poverty resulting …

2021年5月13日 · Many have come to acknowledge that Japan no longer has a hundred million in its middle class, but has rather become a stratified society. As the disparities have grown, …