{"id":94893,"date":"2017-01-25T17:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T08:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=94893&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-01-30T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:12:54","slug":"fukuoka-city-2017-budget-highest-ever","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-city-2017-budget-highest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka City 2017 Budget Highest Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukuoka City General Account Budget for fiscal year 2017 (starts Apr. 2017) will be the highest ever at \u00a5830,000,000,000 to \u00a5840,000,000,000. The 2016 budget was \u00a5784,500,000,000. The increased budget has resulted from an increased population and new housing development, leading to higher tax revenues in the city. Plans for 2017 include the development of \u2018new\u2019 traditional craft goods for foreign visitors, rehabilitation support in local areas, and events at the Vegefru stadium. <strong>Source<\/strong>: Asahi Shinbun, <a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20170124\/ddl\/k40\/010\/414000c\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 24, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img0688-1024x678.jpg?resize=1024%2C678\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-94894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img0688.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img0688.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img0688.jpg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img0688.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img0688.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/showcase.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">City of Fukuoka<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2013-<br \/>\n<em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukuoka City General Account Budget for fiscal year 2017 (starts Apr. 2017) will be the highest ever at \u00a5830,000,000,000 to \u00a5840,000,000,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-94893","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/94893","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=94893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}