{"id":270175,"date":"2026-02-02T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270175\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:40:19","slug":"small-firms-in-japan-struggling-to-raise-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270175\/","title":{"rendered":"Small firms in Japan struggling to raise wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both labor and management are hoping to achieve wage hikes exceeding inflation as this year&#8217;s shunt\u014d spring wage talks have fully started in Japan, with large companies, many of which enjoy strong earnings, particularly positive about continuing to offer robust pay increases.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, small companies generally face severe financial conditions and are therefore struggling to keep increasing wages.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult for small companies to narrow the pay gap with large corporations at a time when prolonged inflation is driving up costs and passing the higher costs on to prices remains challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both labor and management are hoping to achieve wage hikes exceeding inflation as this year&#8217;s shunt\u014d spring wage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46,14989,265,4319,140769,11843,19847],"class_list":{"0":"post-270175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-japanese-economy","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-manufacturing","15":"tag-shunto","16":"tag-unions","17":"tag-wages"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}