{"id":45709,"date":"2022-06-23T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/japans-famed-100-yen-shops-fall-victim-to-cost-of-living-squeeze"},"modified":"2022-06-23T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:37:09","slug":"japans-famed-100-yen-shops-fall-victim-to-cost-of-living-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45709","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s famed 100-yen shops fall victim to cost-of-living squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices at discount stores double or more as cost pressures become critical issue ahead of upper house elections next month<\/p>\n<p>There can\u2019t be a household in Japan that doesn\u2019t own a few items from a 100-yen shop \u2013 anything from chopsticks and teacups to air freshener and bin bags.<\/p>\n<p>But the wildly popular discount stores \u2013 whose roots lie in the country\u2019s long battle with deflation \u2013 are having to compromise on their USP, as soaring raw material costs, the war in Ukraine and a weak yen force companies to raise prices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/japans-famed-100-yen-shops-fall-victim-to-cost-of-living-squeeze\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices at discount stores double or more as cost pressures become critical issue ahead of upper house elections next monthThere can\u2019t be a household in Japan that doesn\u2019t own a few items from a 100-yen shop \u2013 anything from chopsticks and teacups to air&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2535,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cost-of-living-crisis","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45710,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45709\/revisions\/45710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}