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Regarding the support of electricity and gas prices this winter, Prime Minister Takashi said that it will be implemented for three months from December, and it is expected that the burden will be reduced by about 7,000 yen in a standard household. On the other hand, the situation in the Middle East continues to...
Japanese public opinion
Reactions in the comment sections of related Japanese TV news videos on YouTube.
Positive / Negative toward: the government's winter electricity and gas bill subsidies and gasoline subsidy cuts
Positive points
Gasoline was unrealistically cheap for too long, so ending the subsidy and redirecting the money makes sense.
Critics just look for excuses to attack the government, while it is handling inflation reasonably well.
This subsidy really helps people who depend on their car, and it works better than cutting food taxes.
Negative points
Gasoline going up will push up logistics, food and rice prices, and small businesses and rural residents will suffer.
The government keeps doing things people don't want and then makes citizens pay for its mistakes.
Instead of handing out subsidies, the government should stop raising taxes and cut the gasoline and consumption taxes.
This is not a random-sample survey. It covers only comments posted on these YouTube videos, which were classified and summarized by AI. The speech bubbles are AI-written paraphrases of common points, not quotes from actual comments.