{"id":347623,"date":"2026-01-02T06:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:13:14","slug":"japan-business-chiefs-hope-for-stronger-yen-as-import-costs-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347623\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan business chiefs hope for stronger yen as import costs rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Keidanren leader, others anticipate wage hikes, moderate economic growth in 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260101N Business leaders\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The leaders of Japan&#8217;s main business lobbies. From left: Akio Yamaguchi, Yoshinobu Tsutsui and Ken Kobayashi.\u00a0(Nikkei montage)<\/p>\n<p>TASUKU IKEDA<\/p>\n<p>January 2, 2026 01:26 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Further depreciation of the yen would not benefit Japanese companies, the leaders\u00a0of the country&#8217;s major business lobby groups said in interviews with multiple media organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Keidanren leader, others anticipate wage hikes, moderate economic growth in 2026 The leaders of Japan&#8217;s main business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,134407,21492,1294,36039,4151,386,12716,129270,56,54,55,52487],"class_list":["post-347623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chiefs","tag-costs","tag-economy","tag-hope","tag-import","tag-japan","tag-rise","tag-stronger","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347623","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=347623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}