{"id":258569,"date":"2025-11-12T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258569\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:04:18","slug":"business-daily-what-is-oshikatsu-and-can-it-boost-japans-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258569\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Daily &#8211; What is oshikatsu and can it boost Japan&#8217;s economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">The superfan culture involves doing everything you can to be closer to your idols &#8211; often through concerts, merchandise, and streaming support.<\/p>\n<p>And now oshikatsu is being praised by some economists for helping pull Japanese retail sales out of a long slump. <\/p>\n<p>Figures suggest the role of fan purchasing power has boosted Japan\u2019s annual retail turnover by 2%. <\/p>\n<p>But what is so different about the way of supporting our heroes that has created such growth?<\/p>\n<p>Produced and presented by Rick Kelsey<\/p>\n<p>(Image: Anime and game fans attend the 105th ComicMarket Show in Tokyo, Japan, December 2024. Credit CFOTO\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct6sd2\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of What is oshikatsu and can it boost Japan&#039;s economy?\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for over a year The superfan culture involves doing everything you can to be closer to your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-258569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}