{"id":249952,"date":"2025-11-07T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249952\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:23:15","slug":"takaichi-makes-the-case-for-economic-growth-in-parliament-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249952\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi makes the case for economic growth in parliament debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic growth and fiscal policy were at the center of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s debate with lawmakers in a Friday session of the Lower House Budget Committee, with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party supporting her plans to boost investment in key sectors and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan expressing disapproval of expansionist views.<\/p>\n<p>LDP lawmaker Ken Saito began by questioning Takaichi about her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2025\/11\/04\/economy\/takaichi-government-panel-growth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly established economic panel<\/a>, which she instructed on Tuesday to map out a plan for growth and investment in 17 crucial sectors \u2014 including artificial intelligence, shipbuilding, defense, semiconductors and telecommunications, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Saito in particular underscored the government\u2019s plans to invest \u00a51.7 trillion ($11 billion) in the Japanese chipmaker Rapidus and expand support for the domestic content industry, with the goal of tripling overseas revenue to \u00a520 trillion in 2033.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economic growth and fiscal policy were at the center of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s debate with lawmakers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,104230,1294,104229,86762,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-249952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cdp","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-ldp","12":"tag-sanae-takaichi","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249952","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=249952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}