{"id":561382,"date":"2026-08-07T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561382\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:06:08","slug":"japans-households-continue-to-cut-spending-amid-persistent-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561382\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s households continue to cut spending amid persistent inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s household spending has unexpectedly fallen for a seventh month even as real wages continued to increase, reflecting the impact of persistent inflation on consumer sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Outlays by households adjusted for inflation dropped 3.3% in June from a year earlier, the internal affairs ministry reported Friday. Economists had forecast a 0.9% increase. Compared with May, spending declined 6.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p>The decline in overall spending was led by drops in spending on food, utilities, transportation and communications and apparel. Outlays for education rose along with spending on home maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s household spending has unexpectedly fallen for a seventh month even as real wages continued to increase, reflecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,8891,219,1943,23122,111,139,69,33281],"class_list":["post-561382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-japanese-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561382","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=561382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}