{"id":602396,"date":"2026-09-16T18:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602396\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:26:37","slug":"japans-pork-and-egg-prices-surge-as-inflation-continues-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602396\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s pork and egg prices surge as inflation continues to bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s average retail price of pork loin this month came to \u00a5293 per 100 grams, hitting the highest level since the survey began in August 2003, the agriculture ministry has said.<\/p>\n<p>Prices for\u00a0a pack of 10 eggs averaged \u00a5309 in the latest reporting month, matching a record high marked in March, May and June, according to the ministry data released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for domestic pork is increasing amid higher prices of imported produce, reflecting the yen\u2019s weakening and increasing pork demand worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in egg prices was attributable to the lingering impact from the spread of avian influenza last year and the start of sales of seasonal products using eggs at fast food chains.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly price survey covers a total of 470 stores \u2014 10 each in the country\u2019s 47 prefectures. The latest survey was conducted from Sept. 7 to 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s average retail price of pork loin this month came to \u00a5293 per 100 grams, hitting the highest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,564,1943,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-602396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-inflation","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602396","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=602396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}