{"id":527078,"date":"2026-07-06T00:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527078\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:28:29","slug":"japans-2026-wage-talks-result-in-third-year-of-gains-above-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527078\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s 2026 wage talks result in third year of gains above 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s annual wage negotiations concluded with average pay gains topping 5% for a third year, underscoring the economy\u2019s resilience and reinforcing the Bank of Japan\u2019s stance to keep raising interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at 5,368 companies affiliated with Rengo, the country\u2019s largest labor union group, secured an average wage increase of 5.01%, according to the group\u2019s final tally released Friday. While the figure came in lower than last year\u2019s 5.25%, it met Rengo\u2019s 5% target for a third straight year.<\/p>\n<p>Rengo represents roughly 7 million workers, or about 10% of Japan\u2019s labor force. The group released its first tabulation of results in March and has updated the figure several times after gathering data from a widening pool of companies. Typically the result slips with each update, as more smaller companies report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s annual wage negotiations concluded with average pay gains topping 5% for a third year, underscoring the economy\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20252,114,184,85,46,14989,240861,140769,11843,19847],"class_list":["post-527078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japanese-economy","tag-rengo","tag-shunto","tag-unions","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527078","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=527078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}