{"id":608997,"date":"2026-09-23T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608997\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:50:36","slug":"big-japan-banks-domestic-loan-share-marks-1st-sustained-post-bubble-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608997\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Japan banks&#8217; domestic loan share marks 1st sustained post-bubble rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Increase in lending margins, financing demand have MUFG, others looking inward<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260922N Tokyo cityscape\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The share of Japan&#8217;s national banks in domestic lending has rebounded from a\u00a0low of 45.5% in May 2025 to 46.8%. (Photo by Tomoki Mera)<\/p>\n<p>KAZUMA SHIROKAWA<\/p>\n<p>September 23, 2026 02:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Major Japanese banks&#8217; share of domestic lending in August marked the first sustained expansion since the collapse of the bubble economy more than three decades ago, boosted by increases in lending margins and financing demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Increase in lending margins, financing demand have MUFG, others looking inward The share of Japan&#8217;s national banks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47085,1396,8834,138,14736,219,1759,18060,22638,111,139,69,300111,1436,2122,89271],"class_list":["post-608997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-1st","tag-banks","tag-big","tag-business","tag-domestic","tag-economy","tag-japan","tag-loan","tag-marks","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-post-bubble","tag-rise","tag-share","tag-sustained"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608997","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=608997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}