{"id":424774,"date":"2026-01-20T05:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:14:17","slug":"why-your-next-holiday-or-home-may-be-on-the-sea-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424774\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your next holiday (or home) may be on the Sea of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost of living in Australia may still be high, but one thing is getting a lot cheaper: Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian dollar has recently mounted a powerful surge against the yen, taking it to almost the strongest position it has been in for 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Aussie dollar that buys 100 yen is strong, but now our currency sits at more than that, buying 106 yen. The reason is a very low level of official interest rates in Japan \u2014 just 0.75%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of living in Australia may still be high, but one thing is getting a lot cheaper:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,941,6771,212618,175911],"class_list":["post-424774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-japan","tag-tourism","tag-tourism-travel","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424774","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=424774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}