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Japan

News coverage about Japan accounts for 4.31% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is up 7.3% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.13 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 6.5 standard deviations above the trailing average.

JP · JPN · Asia · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
4.31%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+7.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.13
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Japan coverage volume: 91 days, latest 4.31% on 2026-10-040.002.55.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Japan coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.13 on 2026-10-04+20-2Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (2/day latest)

Protest events located in Japan: 81 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-10-020.0025.050.0Jul 7Jul 23Aug 6Aug 20Sep 4Sep 21Oct 2

Diplomacy (30/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Japan: 91 days, latest 30.00 on 2026-10-040.005001000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coercion & force (29/day latest)

Coercive events located in Japan: 91 days, latest 29.00 on 2026-10-040.00100200Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Japan, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 9% of the coverage about Japan came from outlets based in Japan — the rest was written from abroad (69,459 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Japan from domestic outlets (%): 91 days, latest 15.40 on 2026-10-040.0010.020.0Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Share of articles about Japan produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Tokyo (206)
  • Nagoya (154)
  • Osaka (49)
  • Kobe (22)
  • Yasu (22)
  • Kansai (18)
  • Futenma (17)
  • Bungo Channel (16)
  • Meiji (15)
  • Hiroshima (14)
  • Okinawa (14)
  • Yokohama (11)

Places named in coverage about Japan on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Japan

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$4.44T
World Bank, 2025
Population
123.4M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
44.9%
World Bank, 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.4%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
56
originating from Japan
Refugees hosted
42,450
from other countries
Asylum seekers
22,647
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 534 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

Coverage share measures articles published by Japan-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).