Ranking of Hit Products for the First Half of 2025: Top Rankings Are "Riceflation" and "Osaka Expo"

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The Nikkei Shimbun has compiled a ranking of Nikkei MJ's hit products for the first half of 2025. The champion of the East is "Riceflation," which describes the change in consumption due to the inflation of rice, and the champion of the West is the large-scale World Expo held in Japan for the first time in 20 years, the Osaka-Kansai Expo. Even amid the cold water of high prices, ideas to stimulate consumption have attracted attention. (For detai…

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Although the Osaka-Kansai Expo has received a lot of negative press, when you actually visit it, you can feel the excitement even more than you would imagine. In the midst of all this, I noticed that the current state of the Japanese economy and Japanese stock prices have many similarities to the time of the 1970 Osaka Expo.