Young Japanese losing interest in cars, booze
Friday, 24 August 2007
TOKYO, Aug 23 (AFP): Young Japanese are rapidly losing interest in cars and drinking and choosing instead to save their money, a survey said yesterday.
Young people in the world's second-largest economies, famed for its love of luxury goods, are also growing less keen on audio- video equipment, sporting goods and foreign designer brands, it said.
The Nikkei business daily, which surveyed 1,207 people in their 20s who live in the Tokyo area, said that only 25.3 wanted a car-half the 48.2 per cent in a similar poll in 2000.
A total of 34.4 per cent of those surveyed in their 20s said they do not drink at all or drink less than once a month, compared with 27.6 per cent of people in their 30s.
Young people in the world's second-largest economies, famed for its love of luxury goods, are also growing less keen on audio- video equipment, sporting goods and foreign designer brands, it said.
The Nikkei business daily, which surveyed 1,207 people in their 20s who live in the Tokyo area, said that only 25.3 wanted a car-half the 48.2 per cent in a similar poll in 2000.
A total of 34.4 per cent of those surveyed in their 20s said they do not drink at all or drink less than once a month, compared with 27.6 per cent of people in their 30s.