News from Japan
348,670 news articles from publishers in Japan, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is prtimes.jp with 79,426 articles, 22.8% of the total, followed by news.livedoor.com, ascii.jp. By language it splits into Japanese (316,558), English (10,935), jpn (5,413) and 7 more. Daily volume averages about 4,502 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 7,207 on 2026-10-16.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=JP&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=JP&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Japan articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=JP&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-23T05:01 | 千葉・成田空港で新免税手続きデモ、利用者と事業者の準備課題 | pressrelease-jp.com |
2026-10-23T05:00 | 『VIVANT』第21話考察：乃木がリュウ・ミンシュエン生存に気づいた？ Fが言い放った「また会おう」の真意に迫る【ネタバレ】 | eigachannel.jp |
2026-10-23T05:00 | THE RAMPAGE吉野北人、主演映画『昨夜は殺れたかも』でコミカルに元ヤクザを熱演「ファンが減らないか少し心配です（笑）」 | www.jprime.jp |
2026-10-23T05:00 | コレ作るために【袋麺】買ってくる！！『ジョブチューン』で話題の超絶アレンジ「なんだこれ…」「2日連続で食べたいよ…！」 | yomuno.jp |
2026-10-23T05:00 | おわん1個の高さは何cm？【実は小学生の算数です】「簡単だよね…？」→「間違えた！悔しいいいい！」 | yomuno.jp |
2026-10-23T05:00 | うますぎて震えちゃう…【京都のおばあちゃん直伝】"なす4本"はこの食べ方が最高！「ドボンするだけ」「料亭の味」実は超簡単おばんざい | yomuno.jp |
2026-10-23T05:00 | "ブラウン"見つけた瞬間、迷わず購入！【GU】「うわ〜最強じゃん！完売前にもう一着買う」「週7で着回したい」バズヒットアイテム | yomuno.jp |
2026-10-23T05:00 | 590円って破格すぎない!?【ユニクロ】に走らなきゃ!!今年の"ブラウン"はすぐに「在庫なし」になる予感！最新7アイテム | yomuno.jp |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
prtimes.jp | 79,426 | 22.8% | query |
news.livedoor.com | 25,193 | 7.2% | query |
ascii.jp | 20,684 | 5.9% | query |
news.mynavi.jp | 19,818 | 5.7% | query |
www.nippon.com | 17,882 | 5.1% | query |
www.goal.com | 15,032 | 4.3% | query |
www.chunichi.co.jp | 8,203 | 2.4% | query |
sqool.net | 6,774 | 1.9% | query |
togetter.com | 5,281 | 1.5% | query |
www.chugoku-np.co.jp | 4,674 | 1.3% | query |
mdpr.jp | 4,396 | 1.3% | query |
www.upmedia.mg | 4,385 | 1.3% | query |
ainews-matome.com | 3,676 | 1.1% | query |
dengekionline.com | 3,334 | 1.0% | query |
www.oreran.com | 2,590 | 0.7% | query |
puchipurabu.com | 2,501 | 0.7% | query |
dxmagazine.jp | 2,481 | 0.7% | query |
yomuno.jp | 2,304 | 0.7% | query |
www.huffingtonpost.jp | 2,299 | 0.7% | query |
figsoku.net | 2,170 | 0.6% | query |
newsedge.bet | 2,116 | 0.6% | query |
www.famitsu.com | 2,076 | 0.6% | query |
xenospectrum.com | 2,033 | 0.6% | query |
www.glam.jp | 2,010 | 0.6% | query |
www.gizmodo.jp | 1,959 | 0.6% | query |
Languages published in Japan
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| ja | Japanese | 316,558 | 90.8% |
| en | English | 10,935 | 3.1% |
| jpn | jpn | 5,413 | 1.6% |
| zh | Chinese | 5,072 | 1.5% |
| es | Spanish | 2,108 | 0.6% |
| fr | French | 1,838 | 0.5% |
| ru | Russian | 969 | 0.3% |
| de | German | 953 | 0.3% |
| ar | Arabic | 498 | 0.1% |
| jp | jp | 44 | 0.0% |
Domain zones used by Japan publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| jp | Japan | 193,370 | 55.5% |
| com | global commercial | 114,124 | 32.7% |
| net | global network | 25,643 | 7.4% |
| mg | mg | 4,385 | 1.3% |
| bet | bet | 2,188 | 0.6% |
| info | information | 2,162 | 0.6% |
| media | media | 1,689 | 0.5% |
| tokyo | tokyo | 1,336 | 0.4% |
| comhttps | comhttps | 675 | 0.2% |
| games | games | 525 | 0.2% |
| me | personal | 517 | 0.1% |
| to | to | 386 | 0.1% |
| town | town | 268 | 0.1% |
| cc | generic | 255 | 0.1% |
| co | Colombia | 255 | 0.1% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 5,000 | |
2026-10-21 | 4,145 | |
2026-10-20 | 2,918 | |
2026-10-19 | 3,395 | |
2026-10-18 | 3,300 | |
2026-10-17 | 3,015 | |
2026-10-16 | 7,207 | |
2026-10-15 | 7,035 | |
2026-10-14 | 6,476 | |
2026-10-13 | 5,997 | |
2026-10-12 | 2,679 | |
2026-10-11 | 3,045 | |
2026-10-10 | 3,071 | |
2026-10-09 | 7,307 |
Combine with other filters
# Japan, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=JP&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Japan, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=JP&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Japan, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=JP&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"