{"id":447696,"date":"2026-05-14T01:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447696\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:50:20","slug":"iran-war-inflation-is-hitting-japan-faster-than-previous-oil-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447696\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war inflation is hitting Japan faster than previous oil shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/commodities\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commodities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Supply chain disruption looms over everything from tofu to autos<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260513N Japan supermarket\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A Tokyo area supermarket. Japanese consumers are bracing for faster inflation. (Photo by Nanami Sato)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The effects of higher crude oil and petrochemical prices are flowing downstream faster than ever in Japan, squeezing consumers when they buy a wide range of daily needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commodities Supply chain disruption looms over everything from tofu to autos A Tokyo area supermarket. Japanese consumers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,21597,113547,61,1095,11829,60,12269,582,6000,194733,43222,2286],"class_list":["post-447696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-faster","tag-hitting","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-is","tag-japan","tag-oil","tag-previous","tag-shocks","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447696","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=447696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}