{"id":41119,"date":"2022-01-27T13:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/27\/japans-favourite-snack-falls-victim-to-global-inflation-with-first-ever-price-hike"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:17:44","slug":"japans-favourite-snack-falls-victim-to-global-inflation-with-first-ever-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41119","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s favourite snack falls victim to global inflation with first-ever price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Umaibo, a crunchy corn snack that means \u2018delicious stick\u2019, increases in price from \u00a510 to \u00a512 \u2013 the first rise in the face of higher import costs<\/p>\n<p>One of Japan\u2019s best-loved snacks is to go up in price \u2013 by a whopping 20% \u2013 for the first time since its launch more than four decades ago,<\/p>\n<p>But Umaibo \u2013 literally \u201cdelicious stick\u201d \u2013 will still be a steal for schoolchildren at just \u00a512 apiece (US10c, not including sales tax), up from the current \u00a510, when the change goes into effect in April.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/27\/japans-favourite-snack-falls-victim-to-global-inflation-with-first-ever-price-hike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umaibo, a crunchy corn snack that means \u2018delicious stick\u2019, increases in price from \u00a510 to \u00a512 \u2013 the first rise in the face of higher import costsOne of Japan\u2019s best-loved snacks is to go up in price \u2013 by a whopping 20% \u2013 for the first time since its la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,6,2515,88,1046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-inflation","category-japan","category-japanese-food-and-drink"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41119","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41127,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41119\/revisions\/41127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}