{"id":71874,"date":"2025-05-19T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/19\/runaway-rice-prices-spell-danger-for-japans-prime-minister-as-elections-loom"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:19:32","slug":"runaway-rice-prices-spell-danger-for-japans-prime-minister-as-elections-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71874","title":{"rendered":"Runaway rice prices spell danger for Japan\u2019s prime minister as elections loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to bring down the price of the Japanese staple have had little effect amid a cost-of-living crisis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s government is battling record-low approval ratings as consumers voice anger at soaring rice prices just weeks before key national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to bring down the price of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/09\/bread-easier-japan-rice-staple-food\">Japanese staple<\/a> have had little effect, prompting calls for a reduction in the consumption (sales) tax to ease the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/13\/japan-kanji-word-of-the-year-tax-cost-of-living\">cost-of-living crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/19\/runaway-rice-prices-spell-danger-for-japans-prime-minister-as-elections-loom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to bring down the price of the Japanese staple have had little effect amid a cost-of-living crisisJapan\u2019s government is battling record-low approval ratings as consumers voice anger at soaring rice prices just weeks before key national electio&#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":[41,311,88,2257,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-japan","category-rice","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71874","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=71874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71875,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71874\/revisions\/71875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}