{"id":694578,"date":"2026-06-10T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694578\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:47:11","slug":"why-japans-takaichi-has-stepped-back-from-boj-rate-hike-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694578\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Japan&#8217;s Takaichi has stepped back from BOJ rate hike debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/comment\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Prime minister faces pressure from markets, US on inflation and yen<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260609N Ueda vs Takaichi\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Comments from BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggest the central bank is poised to raise interest rates. (Nikkei montage)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan is poised to raise interest rates next week. A big reason for that is Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s apparent willingness to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comment Prime minister faces pressure from markets, US on inflation and yen Comments from BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[131394,8235,28168,28,23642,101,10714,92045,73821,14222,301085,1688],"class_list":["post-694578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-takaichi","tag-back","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-debate","tag-economy","tag-has","tag-hike","tag-japans","tag-rate","tag-stepped","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694578","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=694578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}