{"id":54568,"date":"2025-08-09T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/54568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:29:10","slug":"japan-logs-24bn-digital-deficit-in-first-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/54568\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan logs $24bn &#8216;digital deficit&#8217; in first half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/technology\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Spending on cloud services, online ads set to grow as companies digitize operations<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20250808N GAFAM\" 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 are heavily reliant on major U.S. tech companies for digital services.\u00a0(Photo by Kaori Yuzawa)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212;\u00a0Japan is mired in\u00a0a\u00a0digital services trade\u00a0deficit, with the red ink reaching\u00a03.48 trillion yen ($23.6 billion) in the first half of 2025, reflecting the country&#8217;s reliance on overseas tech giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology Spending on cloud services, online ads set to grow as companies digitize operations Japanese companies are heavily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29939,2325,84,29940,1109,1294,12781,29941,386,29938,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-54568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-24bn","tag-2325","tag-business","tag-deficit","tag-digital","tag-economy","tag-first","tag-half","tag-japan","tag-logs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54568","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=54568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}