Financial Crisis in Japan

I was watching the Brazilian news tonight – yes thanks to the Internet I am still able to watch some Brazilian Television – and one of the reportage that I remember was about the financial crisis in Japan. They were showing how Tokyo became the most expensive city in the world. They interviewed a few tourists that were walking on the streets, just looking the stores because it was way expensive to buy anything. This guy from Australia said that besides food he didn’t buy anything else. This Brazilian woman that works and lives in Japan pays something around $1,200 dollars every month to rent a very small 2 rooms and it was really small for what I could see and she still has to share that with a cousin. The “apartment” looks very small, in the kitchen you just could see the sink, a 2 burns stove, a little refrigerator, a little table with a laptop on it and one mattress on the floor, which is used for the cousin to sleep. During the night if she wants some water, she has to walk careful to the sink, and needs to watch her cousin on the floor so she doesn’t step on him. Her bedroom is also living room and office, when she has people over they must sit on the twin size bed. Another thing is how fruits are expensive in Japan. They have stores that sell fruits like they sell clothes or jewels. In this particularly store they really treat fruits like jewels, one banana, a single yellow banana is wrapped individually and sold for something around $3 dollars. A single white strawberry, which is the kind of strawberry they grow in Japan is sold in this little jewels box and costs incredible $10 dollars. If you want a melon, well, you can get it for $40 dollars. After watching this on the news I thought in two things. Either people in Japan make allot of money or they hardly buy fruits.