{"id":53916,"date":"2023-05-27T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=53916"},"modified":"2023-05-27T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:02:52","slug":"japans-net-external-assets-hit-record-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2023\/05\/27\/japans-net-external-assets-hit-record-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s net external assets hit record in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s net external assets at the end of 2022 grew 0.2 percent from a year before to 418,628.5 billion yen, hitting a record high for the fourth straight year thanks to the yen&#8217;s steep depreciation, the Finance Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dollar stood at 132.1 yen at the end of 2022, up some 17 yen from a year before. While the yen&#8217;s weakness helped increase Japan&#8217;s external debts by some 28 trillion yen, it also boosted the country&#8217;s external assets by around 108 trillion yen, the Jiji Press reported, citing the ministry&#8217;s figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The balance of external assets owned by the government, companies and individuals in Japan rose 6.5 percent to 1,338,236.4 billion yen, increasing for the 14th consecutive year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total, direct investment grew 17.3 percent to 274,749 billion yen. Securities investment dropped 8.4 percent to 531,290 billion yen, mainly due to falling prices for foreign securities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The balance of external debts rose 9.6 percent to 919,607.9 billion yen, hitting a record high for the fourth consecutive year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s net external assets at the end of 2022 grew 0.2 percent from a year before to 418,628.5 billion yen, hitting a record high for the fourth straight year thanks to the yen&#8217;s steep depreciation, the Finance Ministry said. The dollar stood at 132.1 yen at the end of 2022, up some 17 yen from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53918,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53916\/revisions\/53918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}