{"id":335293,"date":"2025-12-09T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335293\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:45:12","slug":"japan-borrowing-costs-seen-doubling-if-benchmark-yield-surges-to-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335293\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan borrowing costs seen doubling if benchmark yield surges to 2.5%"},"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 rates a burden on regional banks but boost to household savings<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20251209N BOJ\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">If the Bank of Japan raises the policy rate, households could enjoy higher interest income. (Photo by Miki Kamiyama)<\/p>\n<p>TOSHIHIRO SATO, SHUNSUKE USHIGOME and MIHIRO ROKUDAI<\/p>\n<p>December 10, 2025 02:22 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s long-term interest rates are fast approaching 2%, a high not seen in nearly two decades, raising the specter of the government&#8217;s borrowing costs doubling over several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonds Higher rates a burden on regional banks but boost to household savings If the Bank of Japan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[87132,36744,93738,45,49,48,52401,147348,46,2454,12358,25274,7561],"class_list":["post-335293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-87132","tag-benchmark","tag-borrowing","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-costs","tag-doubling","tag-economy","tag-japan","tag-seen","tag-surges","tag-yield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335293","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=335293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}