{"id":886788,"date":"2026-09-10T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886788\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:34:35","slug":"japan-youth-wealth-gap-widens-as-20-somethings-lag-in-asset-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886788\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan youth wealth gap widens as 20-somethings lag in asset building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/society\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Smaller share of new workforce entrants have tax-free NISA investment accounts<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260909N yen notes\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Although Japanese people under 30 are putting more money into securities on average, the age group&#8217;s inequality coefficient is higher than any other. (Photo by Sae Kamae)<\/p>\n<p>KYOKO TAMADA<\/p>\n<p>September 10, 2026 05:19 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The gap in financial asset holdings among Japan&#8217;s younger generations is widening, with more young people than older generations not taking part in the government&#8217;s tax-free investment program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Society Smaller share of new workforce entrants have tax-free NISA investment accounts Although Japanese people under 30 are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[456280,92029,64,63,22674,99,164,44524,941,23181,193,219178,9963],"class_list":["post-886788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-20-somethings","tag-asset","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-building","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gap","tag-japan","tag-lag","tag-wealth","tag-widens","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}