{"id":527518,"date":"2022-10-06T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527518"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T06:36:13","slug":"japan-to-curb-electricity-costs-amid-weak-yen-recession-risks-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japan-to-curb-electricity-costs-amid-weak-yen-recession-risks-pm-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to curb electricity costs amid weak yen, recession risks, PM says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will take \u201cunprecedented\u201d measures to curb rising electricity bills for households and businesses as a weak yen fans inflation and global recession fears pose big risks to the economy, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRising energy and food prices due to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, coupled with a weak yen, and the fears of global economic slowdown are big risk factors to Japan\u2019s economy,\u201d Kishida said.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices in Japan\u2019s capital Tokyo rose in September at the fastest pace since 2014, government data showed on Monday, highlighting the increasing burden for households from the yen\u2019s plunge to 24-year-lows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will take \u201cunprecedented\u201d measures to curb rising electricity bills for households and businesses as a weak yen fans inflation and global recession fears pose big risks to the economy, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told parliament on Wednesday. \u201cRising energy and food prices due to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, coupled with a weak yen, and the fears of global economic slowdown are big risk factors to Japan\u2019s economy,\u201d Kishida said. Consumer prices in Japan\u2019s capital Tokyo rose in September at the fastest pace since 2014, government data showed on Monday, highlighting the increasing burden for households from the yen\u2019s plunge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}