{"id":649952,"date":"2025-12-23T07:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649952\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:53:15","slug":"japans-takaichi-rejects-irresponsible-bond-issuance-tax-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649952\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Takaichi rejects &#8216;irresponsible bond issuance, tax cuts&#8217;"},"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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Prime minister calls national debt level &#8216;still high&#8217; in exclusive interview<\/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\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20251223 Takaichi Interview\" 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 speaks in an exclusive interview with\u00a0Nikkei at the prime minister&#8217;s office in Tokyo on Dec. 23. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)<\/p>\n<p>RIEKO MIKI and MITSURU OBE<\/p>\n<p>December 23, 2025 13:49 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday said that Japan&#8217;s national debt level is &#8220;still high&#8221; and rejected any &#8220;irresponsible bond issuance or tax cuts,&#8221; as she tries to support the nation&#8217;s economy hit by high tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump while avoiding any loss of confidence in the yen and government finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Prime minister calls national debt level &#8216;still high&#8217; in exclusive interview Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[198978,167806,53657,51,91087,1700,198979,156433,153704,1200,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-649952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-irresponsible","9":"tag-takaichi","10":"tag-bond","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-cuts","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-issuance","15":"tag-japans","16":"tag-rejects","17":"tag-tax","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115767805634174435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649952","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=649952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}