{"id":15532,"date":"2017-07-27T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15532"},"modified":"2017-07-27T06:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T10:34:05","slug":"japans-elderly-are-redefining-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/japans-elderly-are-redefining-luxury\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Elderly Are Redefining Luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072717_1030_JapansElder1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Cooper and Keiko Ujikane examined Japan&#8217;s rising luxury market:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s population is ageing and that means a lot of retirees with pensions saved up.<\/li>\n<li>The country&#8217;s frugal culture means that the average retiree starts with a parting bonus of $210,000.<\/li>\n<li>Finally free of a taxing work schedule and family responsibilities the old are looking to have some fun.<\/li>\n<li>One company launched a luxury sightseeing tour bus (pictured above) so the aged can visit landmarks in comfort.<\/li>\n<li>Another set up in the very heart of Tokyo and started drilling into the earth to build an artificial hot spring.<\/li>\n<li>Luxury cruise ships that tour the world over several months can charge as much as $230,000 for a cabin and are selling out immediately.<\/li>\n<li>And a 10-carriage sleeper train speeds around Japan with Michelin-starred chefs and a lounge pianist onboard for its 34 passengers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-07-17\/older-and-a-lot-richer-japan-s-retirees-fuel-luxury-travel-boom\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Cooper and Keiko Ujikane examined Japan&#8217;s rising luxury market: Japan&#8217;s population is ageing and that means a lot of retirees with pensions saved up. The country&#8217;s frugal culture means that the average retiree starts with a parting bonus of $210,000. Finally free of a taxing work schedule and family responsibilities the old are looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072717_1030_JapansElder1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15535,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532\/revisions\/15535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}