{"id":25100,"date":"2012-06-28T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T03:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=25100"},"modified":"2012-06-28T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T03:26:05","slug":"jr-kyushu-to-convert-consumption-tax-increase-to-fare-hike","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/jr-kyushu-to-convert-consumption-tax-increase-to-fare-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->JR Kyushu to Convert Consumption Tax Increase to Fare Hike<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->JR Kyushu President Koji Karaike said that the railroad would convert any consumption tax increase into a fare increase in conjunction with a tax rise in stages. When the consumption tax was boosted from 3% to 5% in 1997, JR Kyushu raised all fares over 260 yen by 2%. As with the previous increase, however, Karaike does not think it will have an impact on the number of riders.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->JR Kyushu President Koji Karaike said that the railroad would convert any consumption tax increase into a fare increase in conjunction with a tax rise in stages. When the consumption tax was boosted from 3% to 5% in 1997, JR Kyushu raised all fares over 260 yen by 2%. As with the previous increase, however, Karaike does not think it will have an impact on the number of riders.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-25100","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-politics","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/25100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}