Annual income of Japanese keeps dropping

Average annual income of Japanese workers was 4.09 million yen last year dropped 30,000 yen from the year before.
It was 4.67 million yen in 1997 when peaked.
Number of workers whose annual income was less than 2 million yen was 10.69 million or 23.4 percent increased 0.4 percent. Number of workers who received annual income of more than 10 million yen was 1.78 million or 3.9 percent also increased.
National Tax Agency researched 45.66 million Japanese who work for a private company.


サラリーマン 平均年収下がる　―NHKニュース
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20120927/k10015333821000.html

Over 90 percents of imports banned at the customs were from China

Chinese fake brand goods disclosed at Tokyo Customs

Ministry of Finance Japan announced that the number of prohibited import cases at customs houses in the country from January to June this year was 13,978, risen 22.3 percents from the same term of the last year.
94.3 percents of them were from China. Korea accounted for 77.4 percents among the countries of dispatch in 2001 on the other hand holds only 0.9 percents this time.


-FACTS-
Most of the prohibited imports from China are fake brand goods such as clothes, bags, shoes, watches and electronics.


上期輸入差し止め件数、過去２番目の多さ　偽ブランド中国一極化　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFL040ER_U2A900C1000000/