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News in Japanese

419,596 news articles written in Japanese, across every country that publishes in it, free to search without an API key.

The busiest publisher in this slice is news.livedoor.com with 285,854 articles, 68.1% of the total, followed by news.mynavi.jp, www.goal.com. By country it splits into Japan (417,508), South Korea (1,080), Malaysia (458) and 14 more. Daily volume averages about 4,386 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 5,826 on 2026-09-01.

419,596
articles in the index
1.93%
of the whole corpus
13,986
per day on average

Fetch it

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=ja&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

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?lang=ja&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.

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.

Who publishes it

The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.

PublisherArticlesShare API
news.livedoor.com285,85468.1%query
news.mynavi.jp21,4535.1%query
www.goal.com17,1894.1%query
www.nippon.com14,2653.4%query
prtimes.jp13,6113.2%query
ascii.jp9,6032.3%query
www.zaikei.co.jp6,7521.6%query
www.rbbtoday.com2,6400.6%query
response.jp2,4680.6%query
www.afpbb.com1,7580.4%query
gigazine.net1,6210.4%query
sqool.net1,5700.4%query
www.j-cast.com1,3280.3%query
togetter.com1,3160.3%query
www.chunichi.co.jp1,3090.3%query
pressrelease-jp.com1,2110.3%query
ainews-matome.com9680.2%query
jp.motorsport.com9190.2%query
toyokeizai.net9140.2%query
www.chugoku-np.co.jp8470.2%query
www.chosunonline.com7520.2%query
mdpr.jp7290.2%query
dxmagazine.jp6410.2%query
puchipurabu.com6230.1%query
yomuno.jp5960.1%query

Countries publishing in Japanese

A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.

CodeNameArticlesShare
JPJapan417,50899.5%
KRSouth Korea1,0800.3%
MYMalaysia4580.1%
USUnited States3320.1%
GBUnited Kingdom620.0%
VNVietnam550.0%
ITItaly270.0%
INIndia150.0%
COColombia140.0%
NLNetherlands140.0%
ATAustria110.0%
KSKS90.0%
BRBrazil70.0%
CHSwitzerland20.0%
CUCuba10.0%

Domain zones

CodeNameArticlesShare
comglobal commercial339,15780.8%
jpJapan70,87716.9%
netglobal network7,2871.7%
infoinformation5690.1%
tokyotokyo4010.1%
mediamedia3000.1%
comhttpscomhttps1580.0%
orgorganisations1430.0%
mepersonal1230.0%
gamesgames1220.0%
coColombia740.0%
toto710.0%
towntown620.0%
stylestyle550.0%
tvmedia530.0%

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.

DayArticles
2026-09-072,366
2026-09-062,955
2026-09-052,948
2026-09-045,518
2026-09-035,200
2026-09-025,345
2026-09-015,826
2026-08-314,928
2026-08-303,072
2026-08-293,146
2026-08-286,832
2026-08-275,565
2026-08-263,851
2026-08-252,242

Combine with other filters

bash
# Japanese, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=ja&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"

# Japanese, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=ja&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"

# Japanese, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=ja&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"

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