{"id":642638,"date":"2026-05-01T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642638\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:51:18","slug":"economists-warn-takaichi-subsidies-risk-spurring-japanese-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642638\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists warn Takaichi subsidies risk spurring Japanese inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/inflation\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inflation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Funds running out to give relief to motorists at gas pump from high oil prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260428 Japan Petrol\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Gas prices in Japan would have exceeded 200 yen a liter ($4.73 a U.S. gallon) without the government&#8217;s subsidy.\u00a0\u00a0(Photo by Mao Kawano)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Economists are warning that a generous subsidy from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s administration to help motorists at the pump could end up spurring inflation in Japan, as the damaging effects of the conflict in the Middle East linger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation Funds running out to give relief to motorists at gas pump from high oil prices Gas prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[136990,64,63,99,15855,164,5465,54395,1294,311155,25395,59222],"class_list":["post-642638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-takaichi","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economists","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-japanese","tag-risk","tag-spurring","tag-subsidies","tag-warn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642638","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=642638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}