{"id":418519,"date":"2026-01-20T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418519\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:36:16","slug":"japans-takaichi-embraces-consumption-tax-cut-on-food-as-election-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418519\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Takaichi embraces consumption tax cut on food as election looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\/japan-election\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan election<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">PM&#8217;s comments on inflation measure have fluctuated widely since last spring<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F1%2F3%2F3%2F0%2F12030331-2-eng-GB%2Fc75219d19070-photo_SXM2026011900011224.jpg?width=780&amp;fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"20260119N Takaichi presser 1\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Jan. 19 called a consumption tax cut on food items a long-held aspiration. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)<\/p>\n<p>RIEKO MIKI<\/p>\n<p>January 20, 2026 06:39 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s proposal on Monday to suspend the consumption tax on food products for two years, after she displayed caution on the issue previously, could open her to criticism about the opportunistic timing given Japan&#8217;s upcoming election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan election PM&#8217;s comments on inflation measure have fluctuated widely since last spring Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[131394,28,22318,4813,101,13961,124184,299,73821,200099,3733],"class_list":["post-418519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-takaichi","tag-business","tag-consumption","tag-cut","tag-economy","tag-election","tag-embraces","tag-food","tag-japans","tag-looms","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418519","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=418519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}