These issues seem to be related to firms' cautious price-setting stance. Improving the income situation by raising wages would be the most direct approach to reducing households' concerns regarding the future. However, it is also important to redesign safety nets with which the public can feel more secure, through frameworks such as pensions and other components of the social security system.
Regarding wages, the increase in nominal wages has been sluggish relative to the heightening seriousness of the labor shortage. This may be because regular employees tend to give priority to stability of employment over wage increases, and firms are maintaining  6  their cautious wage-setting stance in consideration of medium- to long-term risks.