{"id":617314,"date":"2026-10-01T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617314\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:22:16","slug":"japan-inflation-wave-lifts-prices-on-3000-food-and-drink-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617314\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan inflation wave lifts prices on 3,000 food and drink items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/inflation\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inflation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Companies raise prices on baby formula, coffee and snacks while BOJ weighs rate hikes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20261001 J Product Price\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The price\u00a0of more than 3,000 food and drink products in Japan will go up from Thursday. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Shiho Miyajima, Akitoshi Sugiura and Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>AKANE OKUTSU<\/p>\n<p>October 1, 2026 13:51 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s latest wave of inflation is hitting everything from beer and baby formula to potato chips and cigarettes, as companies increased prices on more than 3,000 food and drink products from Thursday in response to higher wages, a weaker yen and soaring energy and logistics costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation Companies raise prices on baby formula, coffee and snacks while BOJ weighs rate hikes The price\u00a0of more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7616,25490,138,36979,219,564,1943,19474,1759,25619,111,139,69,12937,24358],"class_list":["post-617314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-7616","tag-25490","tag-business","tag-drink","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-inflation","tag-items","tag-japan","tag-lifts","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prices","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617314","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=617314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}