{"id":1129111,"date":"2026-08-04T03:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1129111\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T03:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:44:21","slug":"japans-two-speed-economy-grows-more-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1129111\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s two-speed economy grows more divided"},"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\">Stock market boom fails to lift small firms squeezed by inflation, weak pricing power<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260730 SME main\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Yamato Gokin, a copper alloy manufacturer in\u00a0Miyoshi, near Tokyo, is one of the small\u00a0companies\u00a0that make up the bulk of Japan&#8217;s economy.\u00a0(Photo by Kotaro Igarashi)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AKANE OKUTSU and JADA NAGUMO<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s Nikkei Stock Average may have broken through 70,000, but Yasuhisa Hirohama sees an &#8220;enormous gap&#8221; between the market boom and the reality facing small businesses like his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Stock market boom fails to lift small firms squeezed by inflation, weak pricing power Yamato Gokin, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1129112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,58359,1700,222669,156433,20996,307239,16,15],"class_list":["post-1129111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-divided","tag-economy","tag-grows","tag-japans","tag-more","tag-two-speed","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117035183988098122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}