60% of households in Japan face ‘difficult’ living conditions, study finds, As indicated by the yearly review, 26.5% of all respondents who addressed that their day to day environments were troublesome, picked 'truly challenging' and 33.1% picked 'fairly troublesome'. In view of the kind of family, 59% of more seasoned families and 65% of families with kids addressed that their everyday environments were troublesome. The study additionally discovered that normal yearly family pay fell by ¥215,000, or 3.9%, from the earlier year to ¥5,242,000.