Thursday February 16, 2012

People in their 20s show a preference for saving money because they were raised during a recession in the 1990s.Those in their 30s and 40s are shouldering a big burden of paying educational expenses for their children as their husbands' salaries aren't rising. Elderly people are feeling uncertainty about their future.

Hiroko Ogiwara, an economic journalist, talking about how Japanese citizens are responding to economic problems. (Yomiuri)

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