{"id":304258,"date":"2026-01-26T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/304258\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:56:26","slug":"japans-takaichi-finds-balance-on-fiscal-policy-moodys-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/304258\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Takaichi finds &#8216;balance&#8217; on fiscal policy: Moody&#8217;s analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Fiscal consolidation expected to be sustained but slow amid structural challenges<\/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%2F0%2F5%2F4%2F0%2F12040450-1-eng-GB%2F1c397b9784d5-2026-01-19T111820Z_1033208914_RC294JAIQU7U_RTRMADP_3_JAPAN-POLITICS.JPG?width=780&amp;fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"20260121N Takaichi news conference\" 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 has emphasized &#8220;responsible proactive fiscal policy.&#8221; \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>SORA KITAJIMA<\/p>\n<p>January 22, 2026 06:51 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is trying to balance economic growth and market confidence with her fiscal policy, Martin Petch, senior credit officer for sovereign risk at Moody&#8217;s Ratings, told Nikkei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Fiscal consolidation expected to be sustained but slow amid structural challenges Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79658,11496,25042,79,179,18,57504,11832,19,17,38770,30722,12318],"class_list":{"0":"post-304258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-takaichi","9":"tag-analyst","10":"tag-balance","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-finds","15":"tag-fiscal","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-japans","19":"tag-moodys","20":"tag-policy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115961042668927317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304258","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=304258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}