{"id":566538,"date":"2026-08-12T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:56:35","slug":"japan-end-of-june-government-debt-hits-record-%c2%a51-3-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566538\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan end of June government debt hits record \u00a51.3 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s central government debt totaled a record \u00a51.34 trillion at the end of June, up \u00a52.84 trillion from three months prior, according to the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>The increase reflects the government\u2019s continued reliance on borrowing to manage finances as spending continues to exceed tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Based on an estimated population of 122.9 million as of July 1, the debt per capita is about \u00a510.95 million.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total debt, general government bonds accounted for \u00a51.11 trillion, up \u00a56.58 trillion, the ministry said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowings fell by \u00a53.78 trillion to \u00a540.53 trillion, while short-term government securities increased by \u00a52.09 trillion to \u00a594.39 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>The total central government debt at the end of fiscal 2026, reflecting the supplementary budget passed in June is expected to reach \u00a51.49 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s central government debt totaled a record \u00a51.34 trillion at the end of June, up \u00a52.84 trillion from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,5399,219,23122,111,139,69,42907],"class_list":["post-566538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-japanese-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566538","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=566538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}