{"id":35347,"date":"2021-08-17T01:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/japan-economy-covid-restrictions-ease-economic-output"},"modified":"2021-08-17T01:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:48:48","slug":"japans-economy-bounces-back-as-covid-restrictions-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35347","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s economy bounces back as Covid restrictions ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic output defies expectations to expand in Q2 \u2013 but analysts warn of contraction risk<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan\u2019s economy recovered strongly in the second quarter to join the turnaround seen across G7 countries as the easing of lockdown restrictions sent consumers rushing to the shops.<\/p>\n<p>Beating the expectations of City analysts, the world\u2019s third largest economy also capitalised on global trade\u2019s return to health with a surge in exports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/japan-economy-covid-restrictions-ease-economic-output\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic output defies expectations to expand in Q2 \u2013 but analysts warn of contraction riskCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s economy recovered strongly in the second quarter to join the turnaround seen across G7 countr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1066,437,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-coronavirus","category-economics","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35347\/revisions\/35348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}