{"id":546697,"date":"2026-07-27T19:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:39:26","slug":"japans-takaichi-backs-2-3tn-growth-drive-despite-market-unease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546697\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Takaichi backs $2.3tn growth drive despite market unease"},"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\">Prime minister says country hasn&#8217;t &#8216;escaped deflation&#8217; despite rising prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260727 Takaichi\" 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 speaks during a news\u00a0conference at the prime minister\u2019s office in Tokyo on July 27. (Photo by Takashi Miyazaki)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has defended her 370 trillion yen ($2.3 trillion) growth drive against mounting market concerns, insisting it will strengthen the economy rather than unleash unchecked spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics Prime minister says country hasn&#8217;t &#8216;escaped deflation&#8217; despite rising prices Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[67274,268725,32319,138,127,4480,219,3499,16847,225,111,139,69,191381],"class_list":["post-546697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-takaichi","tag-23tn","tag-backs","tag-business","tag-despite","tag-drive","tag-economy","tag-growth","tag-japans","tag-market","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-unease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546697","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=546697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}