{"id":47831,"date":"2025-09-07T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/tokyo-rents-soar-past-30-of-household-income-squeezing-families\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:54:29","slug":"tokyo-rents-soar-past-30-of-household-income-squeezing-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/tokyo-rents-soar-past-30-of-household-income-squeezing-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo rents soar past 30% of household income, squeezing families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-trackable=\"article\">\n<div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/property\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Property<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">More people choose to rent amid post-COVID surge in home prices<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F4%2F2%2F4%2F0%2F11440424-2-eng-GB%2F72f1c4d9b688-photo_SXM2025051800009584.jpg?width=780&#038;fit=cover&#038;gravity=faces&#038;dpr=2&#038;quality=medium&#038;source=nar-cms&#038;format=auto\" alt=\"20250904N Tokyo apartments\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"><\/p>\n<p data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">More households are looking to live in apartments in city\u00a0centers because of the convenience they offer.\u00a0(Photo by Tomoki Mera)<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>DAISUKE HORI<\/p>\n<div data-dark-mode=\"false\">\n<p><span>September 5, 2025 04:53 JST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"article-body-preview\" data-article-body data-trackable=\"bodytext\" data-atlas=\"body\">\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\">TOKYO &#8212; Apartment rents are rising in such major Japanese cities as 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