{"id":639527,"date":"2025-12-18T04:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:08:25","slug":"energy-projects-in-focus-for-japans-550bn-us-investment-as-talks-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639527\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy projects in focus for Japan&#8217;s $550bn US investment as talks begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/trade-war\/trump-tariffs\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump tariffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Joint panel for screening candidates to hold first meeting with eye on profitability<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20251217N Lutnick US Commerce\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will head the committee that selects candidate investment projects.\u00a0(Photo by Shintaro Ino)<\/p>\n<p>RYOHEI YASOSHIMA and HAJIME TSUKADA<\/p>\n<p>December 18, 2025 01:34 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">WASHINGTON\/TOKYO &#8212; Japan and the U.S. begin talks as early as Thursday Japan time on choosing projects for\u00a0the $550 billion investment pledge Tokyo made during tariff negotiations, with projects in the energy sector considered likely candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs Joint panel for screening candidates to hold first meeting with eye on profitability U.S. Commerce Secretary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[196929,89017,51,1700,35,27110,1197,156433,28767,47583,16,15,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-639527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-550bn","9":"tag-begin","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-focus","14":"tag-investment","15":"tag-japans","16":"tag-projects","17":"tag-talks","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115738609190424411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639527","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=639527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}