{"id":635312,"date":"2026-05-10T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635312\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:05:27","slug":"japan-pushes-for-south-american-economic-pact-eyeing-energy-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635312\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan pushes for South American economic pact, eyeing energy resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/trade\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Tokyo aims to kick off Mercosur talks by summer, Brazil beef imports pose hurdle<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260509N Takaichi South America thm\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Talks toward an economic partnership agreement with Mercosur would mark the first major free-trade negotiation for Japan under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.\u00a0(Nikkei montage\/Kyodo)<\/p>\n<p>KOUTA OHYAMA and RINTO HORIKOSHI<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan aims to begin negotiations toward an economic partnership agreement with a group of five South American nations by summer, seeking to secure resources and expand trade with a market of nearly 300 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade Tokyo aims to kick off Mercosur talks by summer, Brazil beef imports pose hurdle Talks toward an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9069,28,26164,101,1872,208673,3471,156265,225791,19753,23767],"class_list":["post-635312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-american","tag-business","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-eyeing","tag-japan","tag-pact","tag-pushes","tag-resources","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635312","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=635312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}