{"id":40767,"date":"2025-09-24T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40767\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:00:08","slug":"most-scholarship-recipients-in-japan-are-struggling-with-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40767\/","title":{"rendered":"Most scholarship recipients in Japan are struggling with inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 90% of scholarship recipients in Japan are in financial strain due to inflation, a nonprofit organization survey has found.<\/p>\n<p>According to the online survey by Osaka-based DxP, 91% of respondents who are receiving grant-type scholarships and seeking food aid from the Japan Student Services Organization say their livelihoods are getting worse amid rising prices, with 19.8% describing their situation as dire. Meanwhile, no one reported a household budget increase.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, 65.5% answered food expenses &#8220;increased&#8221; and 10.2% said they &#8220;increased significantly&#8221; while 56.5% expressed dissatisfaction with their everyday meals.<\/p>\n<p>The July 1-25 survey, in which 354 people between the ages of 18-25 gave valid responses, also found that there are struggling scholarship recipients who are skipping meals to pay rent and who are having difficulty taking on more part-time jobs out of concern it may negatively affect their studies.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that &#8220;scholarship allowances are effectively decreasing because of inflation,&#8221; DxP head Noriaki Imai urged the government to immediately carry out emergency financial aid for students in need and then introduce an inflation-linked scholarship payment system in the medium to long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 90% of scholarship recipients in Japan are in financial strain due to inflation, a nonprofit organization survey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,84,564,1943,232,111,139,69,23123],"class_list":["post-40767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-food","tag-inflation","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-surveys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}