{"id":473066,"date":"2026-05-29T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473066\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:56:22","slug":"japans-industrial-production-and-retail-sales-improve-despite-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473066\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s industrial production and retail sales improve despite Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Unemployment declines to 2.5% as population falls to 123 million<\/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\/7\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260529 Toyota Factory\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Industrial output in Japan rose in April, helped by increases in machinery production.\u00a0(Photo by Naoki Hori)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s industrial output, unemployment rate and retail sales all improved in April despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, government data showed on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Unemployment declines to 2.5% as population falls to 123 million Industrial output in Japan rose in April,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,18724,113,61,147466,4230,11829,60,10355,6003,4674,16543,2286],"class_list":["post-473066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-despite","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-improve","tag-industrial","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-japans","tag-production","tag-retail","tag-sales","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473066","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=473066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}