🇯🇵 The reality in Japan is that people can only afford discounted items.

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Hi, hello, hello.

[00:00:03]So, welcome back to my another episode of Japan has been facing critical moment of the oil crisis and inflation and uh you know, very very uh negative situation toward our economic situation. So, I'm going to give you another episode of another video featuring on the latest price latest grocery price.

[00:00:35]I just went to a local grocery a local supermarket to buy uh food items for today's uh dinner meal. So, and uh my shopping today was very very small and it will be quick. The today's video will be very short. But before moving on, I want to say, you know, I just saw uh the news social news today is that due to the due to the uh shortage of naphtha naphtha, you know the naphtha?

[00:01:05]Naphtha is made by the crude oil. In Japan, like I explained, Japan has been uh facing the most critical moment of the shortage of the crude oil and uh affecting the negative impact toward the shortage of naphtha. And uh many, you know, for example, today I saw I just watched uh YouTube video uh and uh YouTuber a YouTuber's This YouTuber uh is looks like uh working at the construction firm. And according to his confession, the company is very small small small company he is working on.

[00:01:48]And then now facing the most difficult time. Maybe in the company will be will be in a bankruptcy. Will will be will will be going will be go to bankruptcy due to the, you know, the confusion made by this the shortage of naphtha. So, they cannot they cannot provide any uh so, this construction firm he's working he's working is uh providing the uh not so it's not there.

[00:02:20]The material for making toilet. You need to bath. You need to make You need to bath. And now, the construction firm has been facing the most critical moment to procure the the material to make unit bath and other not only for unit bath, many many, you know, uh home appliances and home uh the uh how to say?

[00:02:48]Furnitures which are mainly made by naphtha. So, in this uh and the and this influencer said his he he is working he's working at this very small company and now facing the how facing facing a difficulty to how to procure under this these circumstances. Now, maybe so he said like, you know, in your future his company is going to face the most most critical moment. And then it is now very very difficult time. So, even though even though, like I explained in in previous video, so many I think the many Japanese people uh very very optimistic and uh I don't know why. And I'm not many many social news report haven't haven't reported very very si- negative side effect.

[00:03:46]But I I guess that if they had they have very very negative news for to to everybody, so maybe our sentiment the Japanese sentiment will be, you know, grooming. So, that's why maybe now uh they don't show the reality. So, of course they show the reality, but just a limited limited the time and a limited the volume, I think. I don't know if they have the limited I mean the the volume control for the negative news or not, but I feel like, to be honest with you, I think that Japan has been must be very must be facing a critical moment for inflation low wage and uh you know, very very severe condition of the uh the the economic condition. So, under these circumstances, so we have to save money.

[00:04:42]We have to, you know, uh do our our our effort to save money. So, that's why I I had to I had to choose this one because I had 30% discount for the chicken garlic tomato sauce. So, this one will be our tonight dinner meal. So, I have two of them. So, so the reason why yes, I I bought this one is that So, so I I just made a calculation when I saw this package. And uh if if I if I buy if I buy if I would buy the chicken itself, maybe cost will will be higher.

[00:05:33]So, but this one is 30% and the total cost so including the, you know, the cooking other cooking with other ingredients, I I imagine that maybe the total cost will be smaller if I bought if I buy this one because 30% discount. So, that's why I bought this one. Anyway, so this one is 400 486 Japanese yen, but the having 30% discount meaning 340 Japanese yen.

[00:06:14]Divided 158 $2 13 cents $2 $2 Mhm? $2.15 so $2.15.

[00:06:27]So, two of them would cost cost the money only like a four $4.30 $4.30.

[00:06:36]And I thought that, okay, this could be this could be this could make this this could this could save our family budget. So, that's why I bought.

[00:06:47]So, and the next I have I bought mixed vegetables mainly uh the What is it?

[00:07:00]uh moya shiva Sorry, I forgot. The the bean sprout the bean sprout. The bean sprout is the the lowest the most popular and the lowest budget vegetable for Japanese people. That that's why I I bought this one. And this one is only 98 Japanese yen divided 98 divided 62 cents 62 cents 62 cents.

[00:07:28]So, recently for many for many Japanese households, bean sprout bean sprouts are most popular because of the cost because of the budget.

[00:07:44]So, that's why I I I bought this one.

[00:07:47]Okay, the next item I have is Let me see.

[00:07:53]Mhm.

[00:07:55]Pepsi. Yes.

[00:07:57]I have a 30% of discount. That's why I bought.

[00:08:01]And this this one this one I paid 90 93 Japanese yen. Very very cheap.

[00:08:10]Divided 59 cents 59 cents.

[00:08:14]59 cents 6 600 ml.

[00:08:18]It's a large size. It's a large size.

[00:08:20]And uh this this one, you know, I I'm using I use for my another YouTube channel.

[00:08:27]So, it's my essential uh item.

[00:08:30]So, and the last item I have is white bread.

[00:08:34]Six slices si- six six slices of white bread in the one pack. And I paid this one So, this one again, I had a discount. That's why I bought.

[00:08:45]This one I paid 150 Japanese yen divided 158 gives me 94 cents 94 cents 94 cents. So, total I have receipt receipt I don't know where it is.

[00:09:02]Where's my receipt?

[00:09:04]I'm looking for my receipt.

[00:09:07]I don't know.

[00:09:08]Yes.

[00:09:10]I have my receipt here.

[00:09:13]1,000 1,000 100 [clears throat] 93 Japanese yen divided 158 gives me $7 and 55 cents $7 and 55 cents. The reason why I'm making this video and I'm uploading this video is that um and uh actually I as I explained uh the other day, so this is my this is my my record keeping.

[00:09:52]So, and every day every day when I whenever I go to grocery store supermarket and I make the video. And I I'm I'm keeping I'm actually I'm I'm keeping the record.

[00:10:05]So, by making this video. And in the future, if I go if I if I come back to watch this video, I will be able to understand how, you know, how inflation will be going from today or to the to the near future. To the day to the day when I well, you know, come back this video to watch the video. Oh my god, 1 year ago, it was like, you know, the price was like a 20% 20 lower than what it it is today. So, those things the objective of this the making of this video is the the First of of course, for you to be able to understand the latest situation, the latest grocery pricing situation in Japan. And if for myself, you know, in the near in the future, when I come back and when I will come back to watch this video, I will be able to understand the how fast, you know, how fast the price has will be will be, you know, increasing in Japan.

[00:11:13]So, sorry for that.

[00:11:15]I wanted to explain because you may feel you may feel it's like kind of, you know, repetition, repetitive video. But so the reason why I I I'm making this kind of repetitive video is that this is for the record keeping. And also, for you to be able to understand the at this moment, the latest situation.

[00:11:39]And today, by the way, April 20 6th 5th 26th I should have said at the beginning. So maybe tomorrow, if I go there, again, I'm going to make another video.