{"id":104822,"date":"2025-08-29T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104822\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:25:14","slug":"tokyo-inflation-slows-on-subsidies-as-boj-stays-on-hike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104822\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo inflation slows on subsidies as BOJ stays on hike path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation in Tokyo sharply eased in August on government utility subsidies, while still staying well above the Bank of Japan\u2019s target, keeping it on a path toward further interest rate hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 2.5% in the capital this month compared with a year earlier, versus a 2.9% clip last month, the internal affairs ministry said on Friday. The slowest pace of gains since March matched economists\u2019 forecast.<\/p>\n<p>A deeper price indicator that also strips out energy prices climbed 3%, dipping from 3.1% and matching forecasts, suggesting that beyond the impact of government subsidies, inflation remained relatively unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation in Tokyo sharply eased in August on government utility subsidies, while still staying well above the Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17416,45,49,48,10423,46,2998,135,59995,17415,18530],"class_list":["post-104822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-inflation","tag-internal-affairs-ministry","tag-japanese-economy","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}