{"id":95833,"date":"2025-10-23T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/95833\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:55:12","slug":"japan-to-pressure-companies-to-start-spending-750bn-in-cash-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/95833\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to pressure companies to start spending $750bn in cash reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/esg\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESG<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Financial regulator seeks changes to governance code to spur growth investment<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251022N TSE yen\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese companies have piled up huge amounts of cash reserves that authorities want to see put to use.\u00a0(Source photos by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>SHIORI GOSO<\/p>\n<p>October 23, 2025 03:52 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s top financial regulator on Tuesday began discussing changes to the country&#8217;s corporate governance code that would push companies to spend their massive cash reserves on growth investments and shareholder payouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESG Financial regulator seeks changes to governance code to spur growth investment Japanese companies have piled up huge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[70972,138,6932,8556,219,1759,111,139,69,21411,25344,8262,4497],"class_list":{"0":"post-95833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-750bn","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cash","11":"tag-companies","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-pressure","18":"tag-reserves","19":"tag-spending","20":"tag-start"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95833","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=95833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}