There must be definitely something very wrong with the country when Japanese rice sell for less here than in Japan itself
They are going to crawl up people’s asses to figure out the problem. A few years back there were news stories about middle men who buy from farmers. I bet the government is going to be all over them.
Raising wages would also help.
How can they possibly force them to make plans to increase production when you have rice farmers with an average age of around 70 tending to fields the size of tennis courts, with kids who have moved to the city?
Force them to get more workers from places like Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia through the trainee program?
We live in wild times where tourism exposes entire economies and it always leads to unfair equilibrium for locals.
I was in Japan for 21 days and only came back like a week ago and I was blown away by how cheap I thought the food was.
An onigiri would cost slightly less than 1€ and in Greece you basically buy nothing with that amount.
But people in Japan are struggling with these costs. Worldwide tourism and local economies never mix well, unfortunately.
To combat high prices, I guess my only options are to become a loli VTuber and squeeze money out of otaku, or create nationalist videos and get ad revenue.
Not to be too Marie Antoinette about the situation but if you need carbs, why not just eat those Japanese sponge cakes instead?
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There must be definitely something very wrong with the country when Japanese rice sell for less here than in Japan itself
They are going to crawl up people’s asses to figure out the problem. A few years back there were news stories about middle men who buy from farmers. I bet the government is going to be all over them.
Raising wages would also help.
How can they possibly force them to make plans to increase production when you have rice farmers with an average age of around 70 tending to fields the size of tennis courts, with kids who have moved to the city?
Force them to get more workers from places like Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia through the trainee program?
We live in wild times where tourism exposes entire economies and it always leads to unfair equilibrium for locals.
I was in Japan for 21 days and only came back like a week ago and I was blown away by how cheap I thought the food was.
An onigiri would cost slightly less than 1€ and in Greece you basically buy nothing with that amount.
But people in Japan are struggling with these costs. Worldwide tourism and local economies never mix well, unfortunately.
To combat high prices, I guess my only options are to become a loli VTuber and squeeze money out of otaku, or create nationalist videos and get ad revenue.
Not to be too Marie Antoinette about the situation but if you need carbs, why not just eat those Japanese sponge cakes instead?