{"id":385905,"date":"2026-04-18T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385905\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:03:21","slug":"japan-debt-interest-payments-forecast-to-triple-by-fiscal-2035-on-rate-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385905\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan debt interest payments forecast to triple by fiscal 2035 on rate rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/bonds\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Higher borrowing costs to add to burden over time, Finance Ministry warns<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260417N yen notes\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Finance Ministry warned that losing market confidence could also undermine trust in the yen.\u00a0(Photo by Akira Kodaka)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Annual interest payments on Japanese government bonds could more than triple by fiscal 2035 to 45.2 trillion yen ($286 billion), according to estimates released Friday that assume a sharp jump in long-term borrowing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonds Higher borrowing costs to add to burden over time, Finance Ministry warns The Finance Ministry warned that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57097,138,5399,219,37078,5616,12469,1759,111,139,69,1653,19257,1436,27561],"class_list":{"0":"post-385905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-57097","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-fiscal","13":"tag-forecast","14":"tag-interest","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-payments","20":"tag-rate","21":"tag-rise","22":"tag-triple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385905","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=385905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}