{"id":360631,"date":"2025-12-20T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360631\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:00:11","slug":"corporate-japan-and-households-to-rethink-debt-after-boj-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360631\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Japan and households to rethink debt after BOJ rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/bank-of-japan\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Seiko and AGC switch to fixed-rate loans and reduce borrowing<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20251219N Yen\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The central bank&#8217;s latest rate hike is forcing many companies to reexamine how they borrow money and to consider tapping overseas markets. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)<\/p>\n<p>YUTA SAITO and TSUKASA MORIKUNI<\/p>\n<p>December 20, 2025 03:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan&#8217;s decision Friday to raise the policy rate to 0.75%, its highest level in 30 years and a sign of progress in escaping from decades of low growth and low inflation, will also force corporate and household borrowers to reconsider how they borrow and save money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan Seiko and AGC switch to fixed-rate loans and reduce borrowing The central bank&#8217;s latest rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,60584,99,31359,13110,164,2150,42930,941,2178,196602],"class_list":["post-360631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-corporate","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-hike","tag-households","tag-japan","tag-rate","tag-rethink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360631","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=360631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}