{"id":817283,"date":"2026-10-29T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817283\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:08:16","slug":"japan-girds-for-new-wave-of-food-price-hikes-as-tanker-rates-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817283\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan girds for new wave of food price hikes as tanker rates soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/inflation\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inflation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Consumer prices could rise next year, erasing Takaichi&#8217;s consumption tax cut<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20261028N grocery basket yen\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Prices rose for\u00a04,965 food and beverage items in September, more than triple the number from a year earlier. (Nikkei montage)<\/p>\n<p>HISASHI TSUTSUI<\/p>\n<p>October 29, 2026 05:51 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan could be in for a second wave of surging food prices as the continuing Middle East turmoil drives up prices for naphtha-derived container feedstocks and freight rates for crude oil tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation Consumer prices could rise next year, erasing Takaichi&#8217;s consumption tax cut Prices rose for\u00a04,965 food and beverage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,1991,268238,165522,386,1779,1254,9919,179935,268239,56,54,55,22982],"class_list":["post-817283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-girds","tag-hikes","tag-japan","tag-new","tag-price","tag-rates","tag-soar","tag-tanker","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817283","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=817283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}