As of Tuesday, Japan's weather agency says Tokyo has racked up 34 rainy days in a row, the longest such run since recordkeeping began in 1886. Across the four weeks through Monday, the capital received under 40% of its usual sunshine for this season, a dreary stretch that is compounding household inflation worries.
The damp pattern has spread across wide areas of the country, waterlogging fields and slowing crop growth just as farmers head toward the fall harvest. Fresh food prices have already jumped hard, squeezing shoppers: wholesale figures from the ministry of agriculture show lettuce up 86% from a year ago and spinach up 65%. A local outlet even reported mushrooms popping up in unusual places - one sighting was outside the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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For now, the wet weather continues: Tokyo is expected to see additional rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday while a typhoon grazes Japan's Pacific coast. The hit to wallets is already visible in produce aisles, with those sharp jumps in lettuce and spinach prices landing right in the grocery bill.
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