{"id":678377,"date":"2026-05-18T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678377\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:06:09","slug":"japanese-prime-minister-sanae-takaichi-calls-for-extra-budget-amid-middle-east-energy-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678377\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi calls for extra budget amid Middle East energy shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo | Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she has called on the finance ministry to compile an extra budget in response to rising commodity prices driven by the ongoing Middle East conflict, backtracking after repeatedly insisting such a measure was not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Finance Minister [Satsuki] Katayama last week to consider ways of funding including compiling a supplementary budget,\u201d Takaichi said at a ruling coalition meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo | Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she has called on the finance ministry to compile an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-678377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678377","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=678377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}