Since October–December 2013, however, the prices of general services, such as those in the food services industry, have begun to rise due in part to the effects of the depreciation of the yen. I suggest a key question is whether the rising trend will continue.
6 C.  Relationship between prices and wages  Naturally, the next question is why services prices have hardly been adjusted. In general, services are labor intensive, and so wages account for a greater weight in the production cost.