{"id":8106,"date":"2024-10-03T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2024-10-07T19:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:45:54","slug":"gold-seized-from-smugglers-in-japan-jumps-in-jan-june-period-as-prices-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/gold-seized-from-smugglers-in-japan-jumps-in-jan-june-period-as-prices-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold seized from smugglers in Japan jumps in Jan.-June period as prices surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government says the amount of gold seized from smugglers trying to bring it into the country rose more than eight-fold in the first half of 2024, from the same period last year. Global prices of the metal have been soaring.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Ministry says customs officials reported 228 cases of gold seizures between January and June this year, up 80 percent from those months in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The volume totaled 937 kilograms, over eight times the figure a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry officials believe that an increasing number of smugglers are hoping to resell gold in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of the metal have surged amid Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and escalating tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>In April, retail prices at a major precious stone firm topped 13,000 yen, or nearly 90 dollars per gram for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20241003_B03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHK World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dealers-in-precious-metals-and-stones-industrial-news"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":8106,"zh":8103},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}