{"id":615459,"date":"2026-04-18T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615459\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:17:23","slug":"japan-debt-interest-payments-forecast-to-triple-by-fiscal-2035-on-rate-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615459\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan debt interest payments forecast to triple by fiscal 2035 on rate rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/bonds\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Higher borrowing costs to add to burden over time, Finance Ministry warns<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260417N yen notes\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Finance Ministry warned that losing market confidence could also undermine trust in the yen.\u00a0(Photo by Akira Kodaka)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Annual interest payments on Japanese government bonds could more than triple by fiscal 2035 to 45.2 trillion yen ($286 billion), according to estimates released Friday that assume a sharp jump in long-term borrowing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonds Higher borrowing costs to add to burden over time, Finance Ministry warns The Finance Ministry warned that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[298786,64,63,99,13110,164,57215,6169,3208,941,17571,2178,19306,31315],"class_list":{"0":"post-615459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-298786","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-debt","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-fiscal","15":"tag-forecast","16":"tag-interest","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-payments","19":"tag-rate","20":"tag-rise","21":"tag-triple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615459","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=615459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}