{"id":899993,"date":"2026-06-29T04:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/899993\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:11:22","slug":"japans-retail-sales-rise-a-third-month-on-wage-gains-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/899993\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s retail sales rise a third month on wage gains, subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s retail sales rose for a third month in May, powered by strong wage gains and government subsidies to ease the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Sales increased 1.9% after an upwardly revised gain in April, the economy ministry reported on Monday. The figure exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists. From a year earlier, sales rose 5.3%, compared with the consensus forecast of a 3% gain. The figures are not adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The broad advance was led by sales of vehicles, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Sales at department stores also climbed strongly from a year earlier, likely helped by robust tourist spending. Sales of seasonal appliances such as air conditioning nearly doubled from a year earlier, suggesting consumers rushed to beat an upcoming government policy that will tighten efficiency standards and ban models that don\u2019t meet the new requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s retail sales rose for a third month in May, powered by strong wage gains and government subsidies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":899994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,4051,2239,79,258332,49311,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-899993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-consumer-spending","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-japanese-economy","tag-retailers","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116831445757503370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}