{"id":832820,"date":"2026-07-29T03:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:38:13","slug":"takaichis-falling-approval-ratings-fuel-interest-rate-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832820\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi&#8217;s falling approval ratings fuel interest rate concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japanese leader may use tax cut to burnish image as cabinet reshuffle rumors fly<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260728N Takaichi polls\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has indicated that she intends to submit legislation to cut the consumption tax. (Photo by Takashi Miyazaki)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The domestic bond market sees the plunging approval ratings of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s cabinet as putting upward pressure on interest rates as concerns spread about future risk premiums due to expansionary fiscal policies aimed at winning support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics Japanese leader may use tax cut to burnish image as cabinet reshuffle rumors fly Japanese Prime Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[60200,45,49,48,166114,46,90233,29669,23029,2735,14296,146082],"class_list":["post-832820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-approval","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-concerns","tag-economy","tag-falling","tag-fuel","tag-interest","tag-rate","tag-ratings","tag-takaichis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832820","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=832820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}