Luxury brands keep raising their prices lately...

I feel like flashy, sparkly things and designer items are a little different… but I get what you mean. That said, even if a young girl carries designer brands, I think they’ll just look like knockoffs on her. There’s also a kind of beauty that comes with age. Of course, it’s different from youth. I think you should enjoy dressing up to the fullest while you’re young, especially in things that only suit you at that age.

You’ll understand if you image-search “real effective exchange rate.” Well, the yen is weak.

I’m not very familiar with price increases for luxury brands, but prices around the world have been rising steadily, while prices in Japan have remained virtually unchanged for about 30 years. Since prices include the cost of goods, it’s only natural that the price of goods goes up when inflation rises. It depends on what period you compare it to, but if luxury-brand prices have roughly doubled, that seems about in line with overall inflation. I think it only feels especially concerning because wages in Japan haven’t risen for so long. Around the world, both the prices of goods and wages have been rising steadily. By the standards of the global economy in the past, it wouldn’t be surprising if the starting salary for a university graduate in Japan were around ¥400,000 a month by now. But for some reason—probably because the Bank of Japan has been controlling things—prices in Japan haven’t risen for all these years. Japan has been left behind by the rest of the world before we even realized it...

What are you talking about? Women who look their age are actually better suited to particularly large gemstones. If a child wears one, the jewelry will overpower them. It’s not something a child should buy or wear when they don’t even understand what makes it so expensive (lol).