{"id":84562,"date":"2025-09-25T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84562\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:05:11","slug":"japan-consumers-spent-more-on-movies-dining-during-summers-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84562\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan consumers spent more on movies, dining during summer&#8217;s heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Even as belts stay tight on basics, data shows everyone loves a little treat<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20250924N affordable luxuries\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japan&#8217;s economy keeps consumers conscious of spending, but many seek small luxuries like movies and dining to cope with summer heat.\u00a0(Source photos by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>CHIHIRO UCHIYAMA<\/p>\n<p>September 25, 2025 06:30 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese consumers splurged on dinner and movies during this summer&#8217;s extreme heat, driving double-digit spending increases in both categories last month based on credit card data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Even as belts stay tight on basics, data shows everyone loves a little treat Japan&#8217;s economy keeps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,3349,48725,179,18,18330,19,17,386,25515,327,7986,56069],"class_list":{"0":"post-84562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-consumers","10":"tag-dining","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-heat","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-japan","17":"tag-more","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-spent","20":"tag-summers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562","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=84562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}