{"id":159517,"date":"2025-09-25T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159517\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:34:12","slug":"japan-consumers-spent-more-on-movies-dining-during-summers-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159517\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan consumers spent more on movies, dining during summer&#8217;s heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Even as belts stay tight on basics, data shows everyone loves a little treat<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20250924N affordable luxuries\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japan&#8217;s economy keeps consumers conscious of spending, but many seek small luxuries like movies and dining to cope with summer heat.\u00a0(Source photos by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>CHIHIRO UCHIYAMA<\/p>\n<p>September 25, 2025 06:30 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese consumers splurged on dinner and movies during this summer&#8217;s extreme heat, driving double-digit spending increases in both categories last month based on credit card data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Even as belts stay tight on basics, data shows everyone loves a little treat Japan&#8217;s economy keeps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,21489,38054,1294,5979,386,1501,2839,40103,72634,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-159517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-consumers","tag-dining","tag-economy","tag-heat","tag-japan","tag-more","tag-movies","tag-spent","tag-summers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}