{"id":548759,"date":"2023-01-20T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548759"},"modified":"2023-01-20T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:56:24","slug":"japan-saw-record-trade-deficit-in-2022-amid-soaring-energy-prices-weak-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japan-saw-record-trade-deficit-in-2022-amid-soaring-energy-prices-weak-yen\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan saw record trade deficit in 2022 amid soaring energy prices, weak yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan posted its biggest annual trade deficit since record keeping began in 2022, as soaring prices for energy and raw material prices were further inflated by a weaker yen, the government said in a report on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Finance Ministry, the country logged a 19.97 trillion yen ($155 billion) deficit for 2022 &#8212; the largest amount for a year since comparable data became available in 1979, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Imports in the recording period leaped 39.2 per cent to a record 118.16 trillion yen, while exports were up a record 8.2 per cent to 98.19 trillion yen, the Ministry&#8217;s preliminary reports showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan posted its biggest annual trade deficit since record keeping began in 2022, as soaring prices for energy and raw material prices were further inflated by a weaker yen, the government said in a report on Thursday. According to the Finance Ministry, the country logged a 19.97 trillion yen ($155 billion) deficit for 2022 &#8212; the largest amount for a year since comparable data became available in 1979, reports Xinhua news agency. Imports in the recording period leaped 39.2 per cent to a record 118.16 trillion yen, while exports were up a record 8.2 per cent to 98.19 trillion yen, [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548759","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=548759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}