{"id":198811,"date":"2025-12-23T23:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198811\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:46:18","slug":"japans-pm-stresses-corporate-investment-as-key-to-stronger-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198811\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s PM stresses corporate investment as key to stronger economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Sanae Takaichi says supplementary budget made a &#8216;preliminary step&#8217; toward achieving this<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20251223 Takaichi Speech\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi tells\u00a0a gathering of economists and officials in Tokyo on Dec. 23 that it is not the time to weaken the country through excessive fiscal austerity. (Photo by Arisa Moriyama)<\/p>\n<p>YURIKA YONEDA<\/p>\n<p>December 23, 2025 21:18 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stressed on Tuesday the need to develop a more competitive business environment in the country in response to protectionism in the U.S. and Europe, and uncertainty over tariffs and global supply chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Sanae Takaichi says supplementary budget made a &#8216;preliminary step&#8217; toward achieving this Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,44547,219,1426,16847,4277,111,139,69,16422,43766,42699],"class_list":{"0":"post-198811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-corporate","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-investment","12":"tag-japans","13":"tag-key","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-pm","18":"tag-stresses","19":"tag-stronger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}