{"id":480151,"date":"2026-06-07T02:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480151\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:05:33","slug":"japans-real-wages-rise-for-fourth-month-backing-boj-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480151\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s real wages rise for fourth month, backing BOJ hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese workers\u2019 real wages have increased for a fourth month, marking the longest stretch of gains in four years and bolstering the case for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates this month.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation-adjusted wages rose 1.9% from a year earlier, accelerating from a revised 1.4% gain in the previous month, the labor ministry reported Friday. The result exceeded economists\u2019 forecasts of 1.7% growth and extended the run of increases to the longest since late 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Nominal wages gained 3.5%, also beating the consensus estimate of 3.1%. Base pay rose 3.4%, while a similar measure that avoids sampling issues and is monitored by BOJ officials increased 2.6% for full-time workers, with both pointing to solid underlying momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese workers\u2019 real wages have increased for a fourth month, marking the longest stretch of gains in four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20252,114,9513,184,85,115094,46,14989,31632,98191,47,19847],"class_list":["post-480151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-internal-affairs-ministry","tag-israel","tag-japanese-economy","tag-kazuo-ueda","tag-mhlw","tag-middle-east","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480151","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=480151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}