{"id":244516,"date":"2025-10-27T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244516\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:10:11","slug":"japans-550bn-package-targets-us-infrastructure-commerce-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244516\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s $550bn package targets US infrastructure, commerce chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">More than half of funds may go to electricity and energy development<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20251027 U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who spoke to Nikkei in Tokyo on Oct. 27. (Photo by Seiko Ota)<\/p>\n<p>TAKESHI KAWANAMI<\/p>\n<p>October 27, 2025 20:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Visiting U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an exclusive interview with Nikkei on Monday that the $550 billion investment framework agreed between Japan and the United States would focus on &#8220;power, pipelines &#8230; things that are fundamental to national security and have virtually no risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview More than half of funds may go to electricity and energy development U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145549,64,63,99,2685,5215,164,4217,38117,145550,4215,44397,2489],"class_list":["post-244516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-550bn","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-chief","tag-commerce","tag-economy","tag-infrastructure","tag-japans","tag-package","tag-says","tag-targets","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}