Entity

Japan

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

As of 8 Nov 2026Last evidence 8 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

All 14 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 30 mentions on 8 Nov 2026, against 227 on 18 Oct 2026 (-87%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 8 Nov 2026 (11 changes recorded since 2 Nov 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 7 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

8,388 documents · 556 publishers · 6% say something specific about it · last evidence 8 Nov 2026

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

ChinaSouth KoreaAIUnited StatesIndiaTokyoFranceGermanyOil
  • China · 3,001 shared documents
  • South Korea · 2,803 shared documents
  • AI · 2,115 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,848 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 1,723 shared documents
  • India · 1,486 shared documents
  • Tokyo · 1,424 shared documents
  • France · 1,331 shared documents
  • Germany · 1,271 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,243 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 30 mentions on 8 Nov 2026 with 227 on 18 Oct 2026 (-87%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions -69% from 24 Sept 2026 to 8 Nov 2026, between 30 and 294 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Japan, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Japan yet. Ask about Japan

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

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": 68,
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    "level": "counts",
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      {
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        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 1,220 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.

  • 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

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

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

    could not check

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • (LEAD) S. Korea, Japan to hold vice foreign ministerial talks on N. Korea, bilateral issues

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

    single source

  • 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

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Japan

Entity.

Evidence
8,388 documents · 556 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 Nov 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 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.

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

11 changes recorded since 2 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 8 Nov 2026.