106th Living Awareness Survey Results (June 2026)

The source presents economic sentiment, perceptions and views regarding living conditions and prices, awareness of the Bank of Japan's objective and target, and trust in the Bank of Japan for the 103rd survey (September 2025), 104th survey (December 2025), 105th survey (March 2026), and 106th survey (June 2026).

In the 106th survey, regarding current economic sentiment, 5.8% said it had improved, 62.5% said it had worsened, and the D.I. was minus 56.7. Regarding economic sentiment one year ahead, 7.4% said it would improve, 49.9% said it would worsen, and the D.I. was minus 42.5.

In the 106th survey, 68.5% said current prices had risen considerably, and 40.5% said prices one year ahead would rise considerably. Of respondents, 28.3% knew that price stability is the Bank of Japan's objective, and 21.1% knew about the 2% price stability target.

For current economic sentiment, the percentages saying it had improved were 3.8% in the 103rd survey, 5.4% in the 104th, 6.3% in the 105th, and 5.8% in the 106th; the percentages saying it had worsened were 62.5%, 55.8%, 51.8%, and 62.5%, respectively. The D.I.s were minus 58.7, minus 50.4, minus 45.5, and minus 56.7, respectively.

For economic sentiment one year ahead, the percentages saying it would improve were 5.5%, 13.8%, 14.3%, and 7.4%, while the percentages saying it would worsen were 45.7%, 32.1%, 32.8%, and 49.9%, respectively. The D.I.s were minus 40.2, minus 18.3, minus 18.5, and minus 42.5, respectively.

The living conditions D.I.s were minus 51.6, minus 52.2, minus 47.6, and minus 50.2, respectively, from the 103rd through the 106th survey. In the 106th survey, 55.0% said their financial leeway had been decreasing. Regarding current prices, 68.5% said they had risen considerably, 26.8% said they had risen slightly, 2.7% said they had hardly changed, 0.6% said they had fallen slightly, and 0.3% said they had fallen considerably.

Regarding prices one year ahead in the 106th survey, 40.5% said they would rise considerably, 49.9% said they would rise slightly, 6.7% said they would hardly change, 1.5% said they would fall slightly, and 0.0% said they would fall considerably.

In the 106th survey, regarding the Bank of Japan's objective of price stability, 28.3% knew about it, 45.6% had heard or seen of it but did not know it well, and 25.7% had never heard or seen of it. For the 2% price stability target, the corresponding figures were 21.1%, 36.9%, and 41.5%. Trust in the Bank of Japan was as follows: 14.1% trusted it, 30.7% somewhat trusted it, 45.0% could not say either way, 6.5% somewhat distrusted it, and 2.9% did not trust it.