{"id":511543,"date":"2026-07-05T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/511543\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:50:00","slug":"japans-2026-wage-talks-result-in-third-year-of-gains-above-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/511543\/","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":511544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30379,138,219,23122,111,139,69,254538,254537,19062,33281],"class_list":["post-511543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-japanese-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rengo","tag-shunto","tag-unions","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511543","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=511543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}