Entity

Japan

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

As of 4 Nov 2026Last evidence 4 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Japan Markets Closed; South Korea's Kospi Drops Over 3% as SK Hynix and Samsung Tumble 5%

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

  • N. Korea slams Japan's missile reinforcement, joint drills with US

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Samsung's Jay Y. Lee Visits Japan Packaging Lab, Calls Tech Key to AI Chips

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

  • Japan’s central bank will sell ETFs 2.6 times faster and could still take 43 years to exit

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

  • Economic indicator: GDP & japan

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

    Open event

All 15 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 225 mentions on 4 Nov 2026, against 196 on 14 Oct 2026 (+15%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 4 Nov 2026 (10 changes recorded since 26 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 3 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Japan recognize Palestine before 2027?” moved from 10% to 5% Yes since 20 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

1,576 documents · 355 publishers · 10% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 4 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.102: about 90% 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.

ChinaAISouth KoreaUnited StatesIndiaTokyoFranceAustraliaOilGermany

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 225 mentions on 4 Nov 2026 with 196 on 14 Oct 2026 (+15%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +4% from 20 Sept 2026 to 4 Nov 2026, between 58 and 294 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Japan, day by day.

Market price, cited

5% Yes

priced 16 Oct 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 10% → 5% Yes (-5pts, from 5 Oct 2026 to 16 Oct 2026)

on “Will Japan recognize Palestine before 2027?”

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

“Will Japan recognize Palestine 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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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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        "label": "The other 219 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.

  • Japan Markets Closed; South Korea's Kospi Drops Over 3% as SK Hynix and Samsung Tumble 5%

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

    could not check

  • N. Korea slams Japan's missile reinforcement, joint drills with US

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Samsung's Jay Y. Lee Visits Japan Packaging Lab, Calls Tech Key to AI Chips

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

    reported by two

  • Japan’s central bank will sell ETFs 2.6 times faster and could still take 43 years to exit

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

    reported by two

  • Economic indicator: GDP & japan

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

    Open event

  • US, South Korea and Japan widen economic ties as nuclear plans advance

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Japan demands release of national in meeting with Russia's Lavrov

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Bank of Japan Signals 2% Inflation Target Achieved, Strengthening Case for Further Rate Hikes

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Evonik, Toyotsu Chemiplas and Sanyo Chemical launch polyurethane recycling initiative in Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • (LEAD) Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S., Japan to discuss N. Korea, trilateral cooperation

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Toyota to Build Waymo Robotaxis in Japan, With Fleet Testing Set for 2027

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Japan to Overtake China As World’s Top LNG Importer This Year

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Japan Tax Free and UPBOND to Pay Tourist Tax Refunds in JPYC on Avalanche From November 1

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 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

  • Economic indicator: GDP & japan

    Registered event · reported 1 Jul 2026 to 21 Sept 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
1,576 documents · 355 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 4 Nov 2026
Measured
10% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
4 Nov 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)

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.

  • 25.5% Yes

    “Will Japan Q3 GDP growth (annualized) be between 0.0% and 0.8%?”

    Polymarket · priced 4 Nov 2026

    Relation: subject of the question · the question opens with “japan” · close date not stated in the question

  • 4.5% Yes

    “Will the Bank of Japan increase the uncollateralized overnight call rate by 50+ bps at the March meeting?”

    Polymarket · priced 4 Nov 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “japan” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

  • 0.6% Yes

    “Will the Bank of Japan decrease the uncollateralized overnight call rate by 50+ bps at the January meeting?”

    Polymarket · priced 4 Nov 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “japan” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 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

  • 3 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 2 Nov 2026

  • 3 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 2 Nov 2026

  • 2 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 29 Oct 2026

  • 29 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 27 Oct 2026

  • 27 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 26 Oct 2026

  • 27 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 26 Oct 2026

10 changes recorded since 26 Oct 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 4 Nov 2026.