No End in Sight to Soaring Food Prices; Rising Costs for Labor, Logistics, Materials Continue to Be Passed on to Customers

By Azusa Nakanishi and Tomoharu Mizuno
/ Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
15:25 JST,
October 25, 2025
Food prices continue to rise, driven primarily by high raw material costs, as well as increasing logistics and labor costs, leading to predictions of repeated further price hikes going forward. Food prices, initially pushed up due to changing international conditions, are continuing to rise because ...
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