{"id":986739,"date":"2026-01-21T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986739"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:33:48","slug":"japan-us-narrow-first-550-billion-investment-picks-including-softbank-linked-plan-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/japan-us-narrow-first-550-billion-investment-picks-including-softbank-linked-plan-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, US narrow first $550 billion investment picks, including SoftBank-linked plan, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan and the US have \u200bshort-listed a few projects as the first candidates under \u2060Tokyo&#8217;s planned US-bound $550 billion investment, including a project involving SoftBank Group, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The two governments have intensified discussions to select the initial projects \u200cunder the \u200cinvestment scheme, agreed as part of Tokyo&#8217;s deal with Washington to lower tariffs on Japanese exports \u200cto the United States, the sources said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan and the US have \u200bshort-listed a few projects as the first candidates under \u2060Tokyo&#8217;s planned US-bound $550 billion investment, including a project involving SoftBank Group, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The two governments have intensified discussions to select the initial projects \u200cunder the \u200cinvestment scheme, agreed as part of Tokyo&#8217;s deal with Washington to lower tariffs on Japanese exports \u200cto the United States, the sources said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}