Entity

Japan

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

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 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 16 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Japan has 721 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Japan yet.
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “China x Japan military clash before 2027?” moved from 8% to 4% Yes since 24 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,245 documents · 415 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.261: about 74% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts 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 · 1,537 shared documents
  • China · 1,524 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,168 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI · 899 shared documents
  • United States · 800 shared documents
  • Tokyo · 767 shared documents
  • Asian Games · 758 shared documents
  • India · 706 shared documents
  • Gold · 700 shared documents
  • Nagoya · 664 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Japan has 721 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Japan to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Japan.

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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  "coverageTrend": "too few mentions to measure",
  "marketPrice": {
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      },
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        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 715 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.

  • 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 wants the U.S. close. Just not too close

    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

  • Korea Faces Japan in Asian Games Soccer Final, Eyeing Fourth Straight Gold

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

    corroborated

  • Japan Issues First-Ever Ship Suspension Order To Passenger Ship Operator Tokai Kisen

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 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 25 Aug 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • (LEAD) N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea amid tensions over DMZ blast

    Reported claim · first reported date not on file · 1 claim · publishers not read on this page

    corroborated · not read on this page: its date and members come from the record's node door

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
4,245 documents · 415 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 8 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
26 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (13)

  • 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.
  • 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)

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. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

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.

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 8 Oct 2026.