{"id":258919,"date":"2025-12-31T00:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258919\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:06:11","slug":"japan-stocks-ride-ai-boom-rate-hikes-to-record-high-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258919\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan stocks ride AI boom, rate hikes to record high in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Manufacturing and finance resurgent as economy shifts to inflation from deflation<\/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\/0\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20251230N Nikkei Average\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Nikkei Stock Average ended the year at a record high of over\u00a050,000 on Dec. 30. (Photo by Shun Kato)<\/p>\n<p>AKIRA INUJIMA<\/p>\n<p>December 31, 2025 04:57 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese stocks had a banner year in 2025, lifted to new heights by the artificial intelligence boom, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s plans to bolster manufacturing and a reassessment\u00a0of the financial sector amid rising interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markets Manufacturing and finance resurgent as economy shifts to inflation from deflation The Nikkei Stock Average ended the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[1135,291,289,290,8532,18,41032,133747,19,17,386,620,18560,133746,992,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-258919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-1135","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-boom","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-high","15":"tag-hikes","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-rate","20":"tag-record","21":"tag-ride","22":"tag-stocks","23":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115811266259907965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258919","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=258919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}