Entity

Japan

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

As of 9 Oct 2026Last evidence 9 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Finance chiefs of Japan and Australia establish dialogue for economic security

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

All 15 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 267 mentions on 9 Oct 2026, against 226 on 18 Sept 2026 (+18%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Japan yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 8 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “China x Japan military clash before 2027?” moved from 8% to 4% Yes since 25 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,392 documents · 417 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 9 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.262: 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.

South KoreaChinaAIUnited StatesTokyoAsian GamesIndiaGold
  • South Korea · 1,580 shared documents
  • China · 1,573 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,185 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI · 943 shared documents
  • United States · 835 shared documents
  • Tokyo · 791 shared documents
  • Asian Games · 760 shared documents
  • India · 733 shared documents
  • Gold · 706 shared documents
  • Nagoya · 667 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +480% from 25 Aug 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, between 36 and 267 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Japan, day by day.

Market price, cited

4% Yes

priced 9 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 8% → 4% Yes (-4pts, from 25 Aug 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)

on “China x Japan military clash before 2027?”

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

“China x Japan military clash before 2027?”: 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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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-09T19:01:08.010113+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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    "yesPct": 4,
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      },
      {
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          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
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        "label": "The other 737 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
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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.

  • 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

    corroborated

  • 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

    corroborated

  • 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

    corroborated

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

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

    corroborated

  • Finance chiefs of Japan and Australia establish dialogue for economic security

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

    corroborated

  • Japan Courts Saudi Arabia and UAE as Asia's Oil Supply Fears Persist

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

    corroborated

  • Japan sanctions Garantex, freezing assets of exchange tied to $96B in crypto transactions

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • [Asian Games] S. Korea falls short of target as gap with Japan widens

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • US Marine arrested for alleged murder of a woman on Okinawa, triggers outrage from Japan

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

    corroborated

  • North Korea launches ballistic missile after Seoul demands apology over wounded soldiers

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

    corroborated

  • S. Korea adds 6 gold medals as men's football team captures 4th straight title

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

    corroborated

  • India beat arch-rivals Pakistan in Japan to claim Asian Games cricket gold

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

    corroborated

  • 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: CPI & japan

    Registered event · reported 19 Jun 2026 to 28 Aug 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 26 Aug 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
4,392 documents · 417 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 9 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
9 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.

Situations it is named in (3)

For machines: this record as JSON

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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.

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.

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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 9 Oct 2026.