While Prime Minister Kishida is seeking cooperation from the business world to realize a wage increase that exceeds the price increase rate, when asked in an NHK poll how much wages will rise overall this year, he answered, "It will not rise." people exceeded 60%.
NHK conducted a public opinion survey using a method called ``RDD'', which calls fixed and mobile phone numbers randomly generated by a computer for 3 days from the 7th of this month, targeting people aged 18 and over nationwide.
A total of 2,384 people were surveyed, and 1,250 people, or 52%, responded.
Prime Minister Kishida is seeking cooperation from the business world to realize a wage increase that exceeds the price increase rate at this year's spring labor offensive.
When asked how much wages would rise overall this year, 2% said they would "raise a lot", 25% said they would "raise to some extent", 53% said they would "raise not much", and 13% said they would "not rise at all." .
When asked what they thought the economy would be like this year, 11% said it would get better, 26% said it would get worse, and 55% said it would stay the same.