{"id":60056,"date":"2025-10-08T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/60056\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:12:07","slug":"japans-wage-growth-slows-underscoring-challenge-for-takaichi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/60056\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Wage Growth Slows, Underscoring Challenge for Takaichi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Japan\u2019s wages rose at the slowest pace in three months with real pay extending its falling streak, highlighting a challenge for newly elected ruling party leader Sanae Takaichi who has pledged to address the increase in living costs.     <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Nominal wages increased 1.5% in August from a year earlier, decelerating from 3.4% in the previous month, according to a report by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare on Wednesday. That was below economist expectations. Real cash earnings dropped 1.4%, marking an eighth month of declines and also coming in weaker than expected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s wages rose at the slowest pace in three months with real pay extending its falling streak, highlighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3473,15812,44509,11863,3313,5603,42,932,1437,3961,44510,43,238,40,38,41,39,19145],"class_list":["post-60056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-august","tag-bank-of-japan-the","tag-daiwa-securities-group-inc","tag-democratic-party","tag-earnings","tag-economics","tag-headlines","tag-inflation","tag-japan","tag-labor","tag-mizuho","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wage-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056","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=60056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}