https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGL_ixbWnuE
These salaries across the board are LOW! And THAT'S not good for the domestic economy that has been BADLY LIMPING for decades now. Japan aimed for a 2% inflation growth with Shinzo Abe: Abe economics known as "Abenomics". And it did NOT happen. The way to do this is for the Gov't "to mandate" INCREASED SALARIES (by law). ONLY THEN can Japan turn things around. Right now they are headed in THE SAME DIRECTION as the USA: downhill - now for decades. So far it's NOT a steep slope, so far. :D Luckily. Getting rid of the Yakuza that run the major cities, reducing military spending to ZERO, cutting the Gov't bureaucracy by - AT LEAST 50% (All developed countries need to do this.), and offering FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORATION would give the Japanese a badly-needed "psycho- logical lift". Ken