{"id":33858,"date":"2025-07-24T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33858\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:03:10","slug":"japan-might-be-in-a-technical-recession-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33858\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan might be in a technical recession already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent economic indicators suggest that Japan might already be in recession, according to a think tank report released last week, as wages remain stagnant and consumer sentiment weak.<\/p>\n<p>Gross domestic product (GDP) may have contracted 0.2% in the April-June quarter on an annualized basis adjusted for inflation, Mizuho Research &amp; Technologies said in the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven consumer sentiment and wage trends, it&#8217;s likely that consumption remained weak and dragged down the overall economy,\u201d said Saisuke Sakai, chief economist at Mizuho Research &amp; Technologies, who wrote the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent economic indicators suggest that Japan might already be in recession, according to a think tank report released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28168,28,101,1556,2402,28167,14443],"class_list":["post-33858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-inflation","tag-japanese-economy","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}