{"id":243292,"date":"2026-01-14T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:28:08","slug":"japan-pm-takaichi-mulls-feb-8-snap-election-yomiuri-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243292\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM Takaichi mulls Feb 8 snap election, Yomiuri reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a snap lower house election on February 8 after dissolving the house next week, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\n              The fiscal 2026 budget is unlikely to pass the parliament by the end of the current fiscal year in March if the election is held and Takaichi mulls a stopgap budget, as she has pledged to roll out inflation countermeasures as early as possible, Yomiuri said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Chris Reese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO, Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a snap lower house election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,123],"class_list":["post-243292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}