Entity

Japan

An East Asian island democracy and U.S. treaty ally; one of the world's largest economies.

As of 13 Oct 2026Last evidence 13 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Japan, South Korea Stocks Slump in Early Trading; Kospi Drops Over 4%, Nikkei 225 Falls Nearly 2%, Kioxia Tumbles Almost 10%

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan, Seoul's military says

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Judo: Japan reclaim mixed team world title with eighth gold in Baku

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Senior defense officials of S. Korea, Japan reaffirm cooperation against N. Korean threats

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • KOSPI Falls Behind as U.S., Japan and Taiwan Markets Climb

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 15 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 170 mentions on 13 Oct 2026, against 219 on 22 Sept 2026 (-22%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Japan yet.
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 12 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “No change in Bank of Japan’s interest rates after the October 2026 meeting?” moved from 86% to 95% Yes since 29 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,816 documents · 438 publishers · 27% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 13 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.265: about 74% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Japan

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

ChinaSouth KoreaAIUnited StatesTokyoIndiaAsian GamesGold
  • China · 1,717 shared documents
  • South Korea · 1,708 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,243 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI · 1,032 shared documents
  • United States · 934 shared documents
  • Tokyo · 853 shared documents
  • India · 793 shared documents
  • Asian Games · 770 shared documents
  • Europe · 768 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Gold · 728 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +209% from 29 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026, between 36 and 267 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Japan, day by day.

Market price, cited

95% Yes

priced 11 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 86% → 95% Yes (+9pts, from 29 Aug 2026 to 11 Oct 2026)

on “No change in Bank of Japan’s interest rates after the October 2026 meeting?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Japan

“No change in Bank of Japan’s interest rates after the October 2026 meeting?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/ff2c97b8a74390da1fb6e30b returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name japan.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Japan

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Japan, South Korea Stocks Slump in Early Trading; Kospi Drops Over 4%, Nikkei 225 Falls Nearly 2%, Kioxia Tumbles Almost 10%

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan, Seoul's military says

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Judo: Japan reclaim mixed team world title with eighth gold in Baku

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Senior defense officials of S. Korea, Japan reaffirm cooperation against N. Korean threats

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • KOSPI Falls Behind as U.S., Japan and Taiwan Markets Climb

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Executives Take Pay Cuts Over Staff Misconduct at Prudential Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Abe Memorial Corridor honoring Shinzo Abe, India-Japan ties inaugurated in Varanasi

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Billionaire Hedge Fund Founder Ray Dalio Warns China And Japan May Pull Back From U.S. Treasuries, But One Economist Says Hedge Funds Are A Bigger Threat

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Germany arrests member of Qilin hacker group who was extradited from Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Japanese scientist Kenso Soai and France’s Henri B. Kagan win Nobel Prize in chemistry

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Monetary Base and the Bank of Japan's Transactions (Sept.)

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • Japan’s real wages rise again, aided by Takaichi’s relief

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Economic indicator: CPI & japan

    Registered event · reported 19 Jun 2026 to 7 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Economic indicator: GDP & japan

    Registered event · reported 26 May 2026 to 3 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Economic indicator: GDP & japan

    Registered event · reported 1 Jul 2026 to 30 Aug 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from Japan

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Japan

Entity.

Evidence
4,816 documents · 438 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 6 Apr 2026, last seen 13 Oct 2026
Measured
27% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
13 Oct 2026
25 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (3)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Japan, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 13 Oct 2026.