{"id":582571,"date":"2010-05-28T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-deflation-unemployment-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T06:08:00","slug":"japan-rocked-by-accelerating-deflation-and-new-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582571","title":{"rendered":"Japan Rocked By Accelerating Deflation And New Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bff5bfc7f8b9a7133050300\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japan has been rocked by accelerated deflation and a spike in unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices fell 1.5% in April, which was faster than the 1.2% experienced in March.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the unemployment rate hit 5.1%, the highest level since January according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jmfkCQFvxtt6IXRmfAjmFGTya2yAD9FVKRQ80\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the most telling fact of them all &#8212; exports surged 40% in April.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s economy is still dead, only kept on life support by surging international demand.<\/p>\n<p>Its GDP is comprised of a rotting domestic core kept hidden by a shiny export shell, yet one which is rapidly being eroded thin by other Asian manufacturers moving up the value chain and towards Japan&#8217;s vaunted position for capital equipment and electronics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-deflation-unemployment-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/6-ZHu49XmLE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has been rocked by accelerated deflation and a spike in unemployment. Consumer prices fell 1.5% in April, which was faster than the 1.2% experienced in March. Moreover, the unemployment rate hit 5.1%, the highest level since January according to the Associated Press. Here&#8217;s the most telling fact of them all &#8212; exports surged 40% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}