{"id":798401,"date":"2026-07-13T22:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798401\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:08:34","slug":"more-foreign-workers-push-japans-overseas-remittances-to-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798401\/","title":{"rendered":"More foreign workers push Japan&#8217;s overseas remittances to record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Fiscal 2025 figure up 11.5% from year before, with Vietnam receiving nearly 30% of total<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F8%2F9%2F2%2F7%2F12797298-1-eng-GB%2F4382531d4cb3-174A0660-1-df.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260713 Indonesian Worker\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">An Indonesian worker\u00a0operates farm equipment in\u00a0Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.\u00a0Indonesia was the second\u00a0biggest destination\u00a0for overseas\u00a0remittances from Japan in fiscal 2025. (Photo by Yuji Murakami)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Overseas remittances from Japan grew to a record high of 1.004 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) in the fiscal year ended in March, up by 11.5% compared to the previous year, reflecting an increase in foreign workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Fiscal 2025 figure up 11.5% from year before, with Vietnam receiving nearly 30% of total An Indonesian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,35430,579,38117,12536,64270,78966,8050,374958,1782],"class_list":["post-798401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-foreign","tag-high","tag-japans","tag-more","tag-overseas","tag-push","tag-record","tag-remittances","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798401","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=798401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}