{"id":14142,"date":"2012-09-27T03:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-27T03:09:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T03:09:13","slug":"Japan-s-jobless-rate-falls-to-4-2-in-August--Good-news-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14142","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s jobless rate falls to 4.2% in August &#8211; Good news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Japan&#8217;s jobless rate fell slightly to 4.2 percent in August<\/strong>, government data showed today, beating analyst forecasts and offering a glimmer of hope for the nation&#8217;s fragile economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The unemployment rate for the previous month stood at 4.3 per cent and economists had expected the figure to remain unchanged, according to Dow Jones Newswires.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The jobless rate for men stayed flat at 4.5 per cent while that <strong>for women fell to 3.7 per cent from 4.1 per cent in July.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ministry said in a separate survey that consumer prices in Japan fell for the fourth straight month in August, dropping 0.3 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>The reading for the core index, which excludes volatile prices of fresh food, was slightly larger than a fall of 0.2 per cent expected by economists.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has been stuck in deflation for years with monetary easing and other efforts to battle a general trend of falling prices having little impact.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s jobless rate fell slightly to 4.2 percent in August, government data showed today, beating analyst forecasts and offering a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Japan&#8217;s jobless rate fell slightly to 4.2 percent in August, government data showed today, beating analyst forecasts and offering a","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":106,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}