{"id":433341,"date":"2026-05-18T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:30:27","slug":"japan-considers-compiling-supplementary-budget-to-fight-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433341\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan considers compiling supplementary budget to fight fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Summer&#8217;s high electricity and gas bills concern Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260518 Liaison Meeting\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Sanae Takaichi speaks during a meeting of government and ruling party officials at the prime minister&#8217;s office in Tokyo on May 18. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Japanese government has begun deliberating whether it should compile a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year, through next March, as the Middle East conflict disrupts trade and exacerbates the cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics Summer&#8217;s high electricity and gas bills concern Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Sanae Takaichi speaks during a meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[11357,138,221900,18205,802,219,15124,2678,1759,111,139,69,217626],"class_list":["post-433341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-compiling","tag-considers","tag-costs","tag-economy","tag-fight","tag-fuel","tag-japan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-supplementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433341","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=433341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}