A growing number of Japanese people appear to be breaking with the country's tradition of sending New Year's greeting cards, as rising prices of daily goods are forcing them to cut back on spending.

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sent a brush-written “nengajo” (New Year’s greeting card) to the linguist Kyosuke Kindaichi (1882-1971), a fellow Iwate native. “Best wishes for a happy new year,” Ishikawa began in a ...

Of 1,018 respondents to a Japan Trend Research survey who said they send New Year’s cards every year or often do so, approximately 11 percent said that they won't send the cards for 2021.