Entity

Japan

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

As of 10 Oct 2026Last evidence 10 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

  • Billionaire Hedge Fund Founder Ray Dalio Warns China And Japan May Pull Back From U.S. Treasuries, But One Economist Says Hedge Funds Are A Bigger Threat

    Reported claim · first reported 6 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

All 15 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 207 mentions on 10 Oct 2026, against 239 on 19 Sept 2026 (-13%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Japan yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 9 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “No change in Bank of Japan’s interest rates after the October 2026 meeting?” moved from 80% to 96% Yes since 26 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,602 documents · 428 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 10 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.262: about 74% of mentions carry no typed assertion

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 StatesTokyoAsian GamesIndiaGold
  • China · 1,651 shared documents
  • South Korea · 1,631 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,206 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI · 978 shared documents
  • United States · 885 shared documents
  • Tokyo · 831 shared documents
  • Asian Games · 763 shared documents
  • India · 755 shared documents
  • Europe · 731 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Gold · 719 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +257% from 26 Aug 2026 to 10 Oct 2026, between 36 and 267 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Japan, day by day.

Market price, cited

96% Yes

priced 10 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 80% → 96% Yes (+16pts, from 27 Aug 2026 to 10 Oct 2026)

on “No change in Bank of Japan’s interest rates after the October 2026 meeting?”

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

“No change in Bank of Japan’s interest rates after the October 2026 meeting?”: 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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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

  • Billionaire Hedge Fund Founder Ray Dalio Warns China And Japan May Pull Back From U.S. Treasuries, But One Economist Says Hedge Funds Are A Bigger Threat

    Reported claim · first reported 6 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: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • ‘Chaotic’ Asian Games raise doubts over Japan’s ability to host Olympics again

    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

  • Amid teen triumph and organisational chaos, Asian Games close in Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 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 27 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
4,602 documents · 428 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 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
10 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.

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

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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 10 Oct 2026.