News from Japan
430,098 news articles from publishers in Japan, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is news.livedoor.com with 285,854 articles, 66.5% of the total, followed by news.mynavi.jp, www.nippon.com. By language it splits into Japanese (417,508), English (6,128), Chinese (1,301) and 7 more. Daily volume averages about 4,766 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 6,091 on 2026-09-04.
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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T20:22 | MEE audio【SleepTones Wireless】睡眠・リラックス用途に特化した完全ワイヤレスイヤホン | monoqlo.tokyo |
2026-09-07T20:20 | 秋冬・春休みの旅費が最大5万円引き！早期予約で混雑期の航空券＋ホテルをお得に押さえる期間限定キャンペーン | dxmagazine.jp |
2026-09-07T20:17 | 山口・高川学園の木下瑛二投手、プロ志望届提出 | www.chugoku-np.co.jp |
2026-09-07T20:17 | 三次のきんさいスタジアムで9月20日にカープ2軍戦 | www.chugoku-np.co.jp |
2026-09-07T20:12 | シチズン【SKYHAWK / TSUNO CHRONO】光発電「エコ・ドライブ」50周年限定モデル | monoqlo.tokyo |
2026-09-07T20:10 | NISAで3割がストレス？相場下落に悩む7割を救う「おまかせNISA」と、感情に頼らない長期投資の未来 | dxmagazine.jp |
2026-09-07T20:08 | 校則で爪の白い部分が見えなくなるまで切れって言われるけどそれ深爪ですよ、痛いよ→伸ばしすぎがダメなのはわかるけど怪我や病気のリスクは考えてるの？ | togetter.com |
2026-09-07T20:06 | 充電に必要な3つを、ひとつに。通勤から停電時まで持ち歩ける3in1モバイルバッテリー「K61」 | prtimes.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
news.livedoor.com | 285,854 | 66.5% | query |
news.mynavi.jp | 21,453 | 5.0% | query |
www.nippon.com | 18,664 | 4.3% | query |
www.goal.com | 17,189 | 4.0% | query |
prtimes.jp | 13,611 | 3.2% | query |
ascii.jp | 9,603 | 2.2% | query |
www.zaikei.co.jp | 6,752 | 1.6% | query |
www.rbbtoday.com | 2,640 | 0.6% | query |
response.jp | 2,468 | 0.6% | query |
www.afpbb.com | 1,758 | 0.4% | query |
gigazine.net | 1,621 | 0.4% | query |
sqool.net | 1,570 | 0.4% | query |
www.j-cast.com | 1,328 | 0.3% | query |
togetter.com | 1,316 | 0.3% | query |
www.chunichi.co.jp | 1,309 | 0.3% | query |
pressrelease-jp.com | 1,211 | 0.3% | query |
ainews-matome.com | 968 | 0.2% | query |
jp.motorsport.com | 919 | 0.2% | query |
toyokeizai.net | 914 | 0.2% | query |
www.chugoku-np.co.jp | 847 | 0.2% | query |
shokuhin.net | 786 | 0.2% | query |
mdpr.jp | 729 | 0.2% | query |
dxmagazine.jp | 641 | 0.1% | query |
newsonjapan.com | 630 | 0.1% | query |
puchipurabu.com | 623 | 0.1% | 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 | 417,508 | 97.1% |
| en | English | 6,128 | 1.4% |
| zh | Chinese | 1,301 | 0.3% |
| es | Spanish | 1,152 | 0.3% |
| jpn | jpn | 869 | 0.2% |
| fr | French | 616 | 0.1% |
| ar | Arabic | 572 | 0.1% |
| ru | Russian | 572 | 0.1% |
| de | German | 246 | 0.1% |
| jp | jp | 35 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| com | global commercial | 345,235 | 80.3% |
| jp | Japan | 72,527 | 16.9% |
| net | global network | 9,188 | 2.1% |
| info | information | 568 | 0.1% |
| mg | mg | 558 | 0.1% |
| tokyo | tokyo | 401 | 0.1% |
| media | media | 300 | 0.1% |
| bet | bet | 244 | 0.1% |
| comhttps | comhttps | 158 | 0.0% |
| org | organisations | 136 | 0.0% |
| me | personal | 123 | 0.0% |
| games | games | 122 | 0.0% |
| cc | generic | 110 | 0.0% |
| co | Colombia | 74 | 0.0% |
| to | to | 71 | 0.0% |
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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 2,585 | |
2026-09-06 | 3,317 | |
2026-09-05 | 3,340 | |
2026-09-04 | 6,091 | |
2026-09-03 | 5,768 | |
2026-09-02 | 5,720 | |
2026-09-01 | 6,081 | |
2026-08-31 | 5,222 | |
2026-08-30 | 3,304 | |
2026-08-29 | 3,528 | |
2026-08-28 | 7,386 | |
2026-08-27 | 5,966 | |
2026-08-26 | 4,272 | |
2026-08-25 | 2,473 |
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"