Japan news API
Coverage about Japan from 990 distinct publishers, in whatever language
it was reported. Pass country=JA to filter.
What coverage of Japan looks like
Corporate earnings, manufacturing and supply-chain reporting are exceptionally detailed, with a pronounced March-April spike driven by the fiscal year rather than by events.
The media landscape
National dailies with very large circulations, a strong financial press, and public broadcasting. Corporate reporting is unusually detailed and unusually formulaic, which makes it tractable once the vocabulary is understood. Regional prefectural coverage exists but is thin relative to Tokyo-based output.
Querying this market
Account for the fiscal-year rhythm before reading anything into a volume change. Company names appear in several scripts, so entity filters beat name strings here.
GET /search?country=JA&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.
What catches people out
There are no spaces between words, so nothing delimits a keyword query, and company names appear in kanji, katakana, romaji or as a ticker depending on the desk. Semantic mode is close to mandatory. The March fiscal-year end produces a volume spike that has no equivalent elsewhere and will distort any year-over-year comparison that does not account for it. Corporate disclosure follows a stricter and more predictable format than in most markets, which makes it unusually tractable once the conventions are understood and unusually easy to misread before then.
Recent coverage
Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
| Headline | Outlet |
|---|---|
| 'She hadn't wanted to die': How Dublin resident was convicted of daughter's murder after family suicide pact – The Irish Times | irishtimes.com |
| How pharmacists are storing medicines in soaring temperatures | pharmaceutical-journal.com |
| Targeted Cooling Enhances Liquid-Hydrogen Insulation | miragenews.com |
| Wealth creators: 12 equity mutual funds turn Rs 1,000 SIP to nearly Rs 3 crore since their inception | indiatimes.com |
| Mafia and escort bosses named in notorious cold case | edenmagnet.com.au |
| Brookfield Business Corporation Reports Strong Second Quarter 2026 Results | manilatimes.net |
| Emma Willis's guide to London: where the TV presenter lives and spends time | standard.co.uk |
| Parliamentary panel recommends sending envoys to North, South Poles | rediff.com |
Who covers Japan
The most active publisher on this country is the-miyanichi.co.jp at roughly
2% of the coverage. Combine country with
source to narrow to publishers you trust, or with
language to separate domestic reporting from international.
the-miyanichi.co.jp · mainichi.jp · nikkei.com · finanznachrichten.de · agara.co.jp · ascii.jp · udn.com · sponichi.co.jp · cna.com.tw · cnet.com · setn.com · edaily.co.kr · 163.com · china.com
Cities with their own coverage
Places inside Japan that carry enough coverage to filter on individually,
using city.
city=Tokyo— 570 articles, 290 outlets
What this market is best for
Best for corporate earnings, manufacturing, robotics and supply-chain reporting, with company disclosure covered in unusual depth. Weakest for international affairs, which is comparatively thin and often agency-sourced. The fiscal calendar shapes volume more than events do.
Narrowing further
# domestic-language coverage only
GET /search?country=JA&language=<iso639-3>&mode=hybrid
# supply-chain risk language, about this country
GET /search?country=JA&signal=signal_supply_disruption&signal_min=0.2Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.