Entity

Japan

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

As of 10 Nov 2026Last evidence 10 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Godzilla Minus Zero Japan Box Office: Monster Sequel Crushes Previous Franchise Records With A Record-Breaking Debut!

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

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

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

  • N. Korea says Japan's push to raise defense spending will only burden its people

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Asian shares are mixed after US midterm elections as AI-related stocks sink in Japan and South Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Japan FA’s Kozo Tashima to stand against Infantino for Fifa presidency

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 14 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 232 mentions on 9 Nov 2026, against 203 on 19 Oct 2026 (+14%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 8 Nov 2026 (10 changes recorded since 3 Nov 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 9 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Japan's core CPI increase by less than or equal to 1.9% in 2026?” moved from 60% to 85% Yes since 25 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

8,677 documents · 565 publishers · 6% say something specific about it · last evidence 10 Nov 2026

  • Gap: 6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it

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 StatesIndiaTokyoFranceGermanyNorthern Marian…

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 232 mentions on 9 Nov 2026 with 203 on 19 Oct 2026 (+14%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions -5% from 25 Sept 2026 to 9 Nov 2026, between 30 and 294 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Japan, day by day.

Market price, cited

85% Yes

priced 10 Nov 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 60% → 85% Yes (+25pts, from 4 Oct 2026 to 10 Nov 2026)

on “Will Japan's core CPI increase by less than or equal to 1.9% in 2026?”

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

“Will Japan's core CPI increase by less than or equal to 1.9% in 2026?”: 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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  "domains": 72,
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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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  },
  "history": {
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    "changes": 10
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  "whereFrom": {
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    "children": [
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        "children": {
          "count": 18,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 1,253 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
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  }
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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.

  • Godzilla Minus Zero Japan Box Office: Monster Sequel Crushes Previous Franchise Records With A Record-Breaking Debut!

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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

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

    could not check

  • N. Korea says Japan's push to raise defense spending will only burden its people

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Asian shares are mixed after US midterm elections as AI-related stocks sink in Japan and South Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Japan FA’s Kozo Tashima to stand against Infantino for Fifa presidency

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • S. Korea should deepen work with U.S., Japan on sanctions against N.K. after Binance theft: expert

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Asian stock markets plunge as Japan Nikkei, South Korea KOSPI and Taiwan stocks fall

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Putin seizes Russian operations of cigarette giant Japan Tobacco International

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Mozambique learns from Japan’s expertise in disaster risk reduction

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Japan’s Nikkei plunges 5.7%, South Korea’s Kospi falls 7.4% amid AI stock rout

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Godzilla Minus Zero Japan Box Office: Delivers A Monster Opening Day, Sets New Franchise Record!

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    could not check

  • M5.2 earthquake — Volcano Islands, Japan region

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • Economic indicator: GDP & japan

    Registered event · reported 26 May 2026 to 30 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Economic indicator: core CPI & CPI

    Registered event · reported 2 Sept 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from Japan

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Japan

Entity.

Evidence
8,677 documents · 565 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 10 Nov 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
10 Nov 2026
24 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 (2)

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

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.

Other markets materially about Japan

Markets whose question is about Japan or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Japan and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

Recorded history

  • 8 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 7 Nov 2026

  • 8 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 7 Nov 2026

  • 7 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 6 Nov 2026

  • 7 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 6 Nov 2026

  • 6 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 4 Nov 2026

  • 6 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 4 Nov 2026

  • 4 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 3 Nov 2026

  • 4 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 3 Nov 2026

10 changes recorded since 3 Nov 2026; the newest 8 shown, newest first.

Ask about JapanWatch Japan

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 10 Nov 2026.