among respondents who owned credit cards in their name, including family cards and cards not in use
Method of interview
Postal questionnaire
Supplementary notes
Original question: "What is the membership fee (excluding tax) for your credit card with the highest spending amount? Please select one."
Respondents were asked to choose between face-to-face interviews and postal retrieval of surveys. The source used a stratified two-stage random sampling method.
Figures may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding by the source.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.66 U.S. dollars or 0.61 euros as of April 2024.
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Annual credit card membership fees paid in Japan 2023
In a survey conducted from November to December 2023, around ** percent of respondents in Japan reported paying no membership fees for their credit cards. At the same time, close to of cardholders paid annual membership fees of up to ** thousand Japanese yen.
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