Japan news API

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.

Does this cover articles published in Japan, or about it?

About it. The country filter matches the places an article is about, so a wire piece about Japan filed from London is in scope and a Japan outlet writing about somewhere else is not. To filter by where the publisher is based, use publisher_country instead, and combine the two when you want domestic reporting about the domestic market.

How do I filter news to Japan?

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=20

Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.

What catches people out with Japan coverage?

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.

• '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

Which outlets cover Japan most?

The most active publisher on this country is the-miyanichi.co.jp at roughly 2% of the coverage, and the three busiest — the-miyanichi.co.jp, mainichi.jp, nikkei.com — carry about 6% between them. That share is worth reading before the volume figure: concentrated coverage means a large result count can still be a small number of newsrooms. 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

Two constraints do most of the work on this axis. Adding a language separates domestic reporting from international commentary about Japan, which an unscoped country query returns together. Adding a signal range with a lower bound narrows to articles written in a particular register — supply disruption, financial stress, conflict — rather than to articles that merely mention the subject.

# 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=0.2

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.