{"id":381085,"date":"2026-04-08T08:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:58:14","slug":"japan-passes-its-biggest-ever-budget-5-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381085\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan passes its biggest ever budget: 5 things to know"},"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\">Record defense and social security spending, but little provision for Iran war impact<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260408 Takaichi\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi addresses the media on April 7 in Tokyo. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan passed its largest ever annual budget on Tuesday on the back of record spending on defense and social security. The package for the fiscal year that started April 1 was formulated before the Iran war, and includes few measures to alleviate rising fuel prices. As such, there are already some voices within the government calling for a supplementary budget to help households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics Record defense and social security spending, but little provision for Iran war impact Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Sanae&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21649,61091,4391,114,184,7579,85,46,5777,1437,5394,182293,147727],"class_list":{"0":"post-381085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-21649","9":"tag-biggest","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-ever","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-its","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-know","19":"tag-passes","20":"tag-things"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381085","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=381085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}