{"id":244217,"date":"2025-12-21T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/244217\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:44:22","slug":"corporate-japan-and-households-to-rethink-debt-after-boj-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/244217\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Japan and households to rethink debt after BOJ rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/bank-of-japan\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Seiko and AGC switch to fixed-rate loans and reduce borrowing<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20251219N Yen\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The central bank&#8217;s latest rate hike is forcing many companies to reexamine how they borrow money and to consider tapping overseas markets. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)<\/p>\n<p>YUTA SAITO and TSUKASA MORIKUNI<\/p>\n<p>December 20, 2025 03:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan&#8217;s decision Friday to raise the policy rate to 0.75%, its highest level in 30 years and a sign of progress in escaping from decades of low growth and low inflation, will also force corporate and household borrowers to reconsider how they borrow and save money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan Seiko and AGC switch to fixed-rate loans and reduce borrowing The central bank&#8217;s latest rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[14428,79,13782,6046,179,18,51115,50996,19,17,386,620,128160],"class_list":{"0":"post-244217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-boj","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-corporate","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-hike","15":"tag-households","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-rate","20":"tag-rethink"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115757388264494334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}