{"id":406228,"date":"2026-03-27T05:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406228\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:38:16","slug":"japan-demand-topping-capacity-since-2022-revised-boj-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406228\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan demand topping capacity since 2022, revised BOJ data shows"},"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\">Figures showing upward pressure on prices could support moves to normalize policy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260326N boj ueda testimony\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda explains the central bank&#8217;s revised output gap calculations to lawmakers on March 26. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)<\/p>\n<p>JUNTARO ARAI, SORA KITAJIMA and YUTA SAITO<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Demand has exceeded supply capacity in the Japanese economy since the first quarter of 2022, according to revised output gap data released Thursday by the Bank of Japan, a reversal of previous calculations that showed five and a half years of excess supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan Figures showing upward pressure on prices could support moves to normalize policy Bank of Japan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[132758,14428,79,83909,2594,754,179,18,19,17,386,183703,5708,183702],"class_list":["post-406228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-132758","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-capacity","tag-data","tag-demand","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-revised","tag-shows","tag-topping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116299530633982913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406228","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=406228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}