Japan’s average minimum wage set to top ¥1,000

9 comments

1. I wonder how people live knowing that generally you work between 160 to 180 hours per month.

   You can’t escape from misery with that amount.

2. Wtf is that wage, what’s wrong with the Japanese government? Get your shit together before the country collapses.

3. Tokyo has the second highest number of millionaires of any city in the world. Japanese people are naive enough to believe the lie they’re told that they are mostly all equal in status. Maybe 50 years ago.

4. 1000 yen ($7.15)

5. Do you understand what the minimum wage is? It says minimum, not mandatory.

6. You can live better lives in third world economy if you earn that low.

   I know I’m at the top 5%, so I don’t really feel the struggles I can only imagine ppl are going through.

   Now I might understand why some Japanese move to places like Brazil.

7. I mean, it’s not great, but it’s not terrible. I feel like you can live on that, compared to $7 in the US. Not that it’s a nice existence of course, but it’s possible, compared to large cities in the US where rent, food, bills, etc. are way beyond that most cities in Japan.

8. Holy crap!!!!

   That’s almost $7 an hour!!!!!

9. wait until you hear about the proposal for tax hike targeting salaried workers. the pm said he’ll dump the proposal but some people are worried that it will just be replaced with other tax hikes.