{"id":61214,"date":"2024-01-16T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/japan-salarymen-ultra-cheap-lunches-food-prices-rise"},"modified":"2024-01-16T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:18:17","slug":"japans-salarymen-opt-for-ultra-cheap-lunches-as-food-prices-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61214","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s salarymen opt for ultra-cheap lunches as food prices continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Higher costs as a result of Ukraine war, supply chain issues and effects of Covid force lunching office workers to tighten belts<\/p>\n<p>Even in a city of tens of thousands of restaurants, including a large number with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/nov\/18\/tokyo-paris-michelin-stars\">Michelin stars<\/a>, is it really possible in Tokyo to spend as little as \u00a5500 (\u00a32.60) a day on lunch without eating the same modest meal day in, day out?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, according to increasingly cash-strapped office workers in the Japanese capital, is a resounding yes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/japan-salarymen-ultra-cheap-lunches-food-prices-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher costs as a result of Ukraine war, supply chain issues and effects of Covid force lunching office workers to tighten beltsEven in a city of tens of thousands of restaurants, including a large number with Michelin stars, is it really possible in T&#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":[41,2535,311,383,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cost-of-living-crisis","category-food","category-food-drink-industry","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214","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=61214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214\/revisions\/61215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}