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Japan · JPY · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is Japan's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

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Benefit standard or reference budget

What the state pays as a basic benefit, or prices a basket of essentials at.

¥130,920a month · 2026

€774at the ECB's 2025 average

Excluding housing ¥77,220 (€456.81)

Monthly public-assistance standard, one person aged 20–40, Tokyo 23 wards.

  • Housing: a welfare ceiling: Housing assistance is paid at actual rent up to a ceiling of ¥53,700; the real share is lower for a cheaper flat
  • MHLW, 2026

What the figure is made of

Housing, up to (a ceiling) · ¥53,700 · 41.0%All 4 parts
  • Housing, up to (a ceiling) · a ceiling, not a spend¥53,700 41.0%
  • Personal: food, clothing¥46,930 35.9%
  • Household: utilities, furnishings¥27,790 21.2%
  • Special supplement¥2,500 1.9%

How it has changed since 2023

Tokyo's benefit standard was unchanged from 2023 to 2024, slower than prices, while what a person in Japan spends on average rose 2%.

1001011021032024Prices+3%Spending+2%Benefit standard+0%

Each line is 100 in 2023. The standard as it stood at the end of each year, from the October 2023 revision; in October 2025 a ¥500 rise in the special addition was offset by a ¥500 fall in the transitional addition.

The whole record

Stock market

At 263 in September 2026, more than two and a half times its 2015 level, in yen and before inflation. The chart below shows what the yen was worth in euros.

JPY per euro

177 yen to the euro in October 2026, close to April's record of 186. A rising line is a weaker yen.

House prices, after inflation

21% above 2010, and far below the 1991 peak. This series ends at 2025-Q4, a quarter behind the other countries.

The economy

Inflation, one year
3.2%
2025
Average spending per person
€1,381 a month
2024
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$58,920
2025
Unemployment
2.5%
2025
Life expectancy
84 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 71.4%
  • Industry 26.8% (manufacturing 18.8%)
  • Agriculture 1%
  • Taxes less subsidies 0.8%
How this is calculated
Benefit standard or reference budget
Public assistance standard (seikatsu hogo) is Japan's own method: The state's legal floor for living costs, reviewed every five years against the spending of low-income households; applies from October 2026. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
No carry-forward. The survey (2026) is not older than Japan's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
At 169.043451 JPY per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the survey's figure is €774.48. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.
Change since 2023
Each series divided by its 2023 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. The standard as it stood at the end of each year, from the October 2023 revision; in October 2025 a ¥500 rise in the special addition was offset by a ¥500 fall in the transitional addition.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01JPM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in JPY and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
JPY per euro
ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker JPY. Latest 2026-10.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QJPR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Japan's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. /atlas ends every change at the same year, so the lag never shows there. Latest 2025-Q4.
Sources

MHLW, 生活保護制度における生活扶助基準額の算出方法（令和8年10月） · class 1, class 2, special supplement and the Tokyo housing ceiling · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.