How BriefPulse Japan works

Where the stories come from

• Each publication follows a fixed list of public feeds and APIs, listed below. Nothing is scraped from behind a paywall.
• A story is written from the text stored for it, and every article links the exact pages used.
• Numbers and identifiers in the text must appear in that stored text before publication; anything that cannot be traced is removed rather than guessed.
• Reporting and interpretation are separated: reported statements are listed with the page that states them, and our own reading is labelled as ours.
• Where the reporting was silent, the text says so instead of filling the gap.

What this publication avoids

• Unsourced claims, invented numbers, and headlines the reporting cannot carry.

Corrections and withdrawals

• When source material changes, the story is revised and the change is recorded on the article.
• If a story cannot be supported, it is withdrawn: the address stays live with an explanation instead of disappearing.
• To ask for a correction, reply to the source list on the story.

Sources followed

These are the publishers and public bodies this desk actually collects from, with the interval each one is checked. A source appears here once it has completed a collection; a feed that stops working is removed until it is fixed. Reference pages the desk checks by hand are listed separately.

News reporting

1. Chiba Nippo (千葉日報)published in ja · checked every 30 minutes · 10 items routed
2. Kyodo News (English)national · checked every 15 minutes · 13 items routed · Feed discovered from the site's own homepage JSON (list/feed/rss4kyodonews-fzone); the previously guessed /rss/all.xml is dead. Headline + excerpt only.
3. NHK News Web (Japanese, society feed)national · published in ja · checked every 15 minutes · 12 items routed · Official NHK RSS index lists several feeds; this is the society feed (cat1). Main feed cat0 carries only ~7 items; cat2-cat7 also work (politics, economy, international, science/culture, sports, life). Japanese-language only.
4. Nikkei Asianational · checked every 30 minutes · 4 items routed · Feed is free and public. Items carry headline + link only, and the feed omits per-item dates; article pages are metered/subscriber-only, so treat items as headline+link.
5. Nippon.comchecked every 60 minutes · 5 items routed
6. Nippon.comnational · published in bilingual · checked every 60 minutes · Already enabled for this desk; re-verified today. English feed carries headline + excerpt.
7. Okinawa Times (Okinawa Taimusu+)okinawa · published in ja · checked every 30 minutes · 6 items routed · Feed found in the site's own markup (/list/feed/rss); homepage is served with a JSON Content-Type but is HTML. Japanese only; some items are marked プレミアム (paid).
8. One Mile at a Timechecked every 60 minutes · 1 items routed
9. SoraNews24checked every 60 minutes
10. The Asahi Shimbun (Japanese headlines)national · published in ja · checked every 15 minutes · 34 items routed · Character encoding is not declared in the Content-Type; decode the body as UTF-8 or Japanese titles arrive as mojibake. Feed items are title + link (no summary). The site's RSS index page returns 403 to scripted clients even though the feeds work. Japanese only.
11. The Hokkaido Shimbun (Doshin)hokkaido · published in ja · checked every 30 minutes · 68 items routed · Character encoding is not declared; decode as UTF-8. Feed URL is listed on the publisher's own RSS page, which forbids republishing feed content wholesale. Japanese only.
12. The Japan Timeschecked every 60 minutes · 2 items routed
13. The Japan Timesnational · checked every 30 minutes · 6 items routed · Free feed; article pages are metered (some premium stories). Feed carries headline + short excerpt only. Publisher asks that feed content not be republished wholesale.
14. The Japan Times - Culturenational · checked every 60 minutes · 3 items routed · Free feed; headline + excerpt only. The sitewide feed https://www.japantimes.co.jp/feed/ and the /community/feed/ section also work (verified).
15. The Kyoto Shimbunkansai · published in ja · checked every 30 minutes · 6 items routed · Feed found in the site's own markup (/list/feed/rss). Japanese only. Kobe Shimbun and Nishinippon use different CMS patterns and publish no feed (checked).
16. The Mainichi Shimbun (Japanese breaking news)national · published in ja · checked every 15 minutes · 42 items routed · RDF feed served with a misleading text/html Content-Type but valid RSS 1.0. Feed states the copyright belongs to The Mainichi Newspapers Co. Other listed feeds: sports, opinion. The old English RSS URL now returns the Japanese RSS index page, so no English feed exists.
17. TRAICY (トラシー)published in ja · checked every 60 minutes · 12 items routed
18. Travel Voice (トラベルボイス)published in ja · checked every 60 minutes · 13 items routed
19. ITmedia Newsindustry · published in ja · checked every 30 minutes · 10 items routed · High volume (about 50 items per fetch); the site's /rss/ index page is 404, the working feed is the aggregated ITmedia RSS 2.0 feed. Japanese only.
20. Just One Cookbookglobal · checked every 180 minutes · Personal recipe blog (low volume, about 8 items). Only food items are on-desk; ignore promotional posts.
21. Kyoto Journalkansai · checked every 180 minutes · Small non-profit magazine; low volume (about 10 items), excerpt-only feed.
22. Railf.jp (railfan, Koyusha)published in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 12 items routed
23. Spoon & Tamagonational · checked every 180 minutes · Independent design/craft blog, low volume (about 10 items), excerpt-only feed.

Primary and public sources

1. Shizuoka Prefecture newspublished in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 12 items routed
2. Bank of Japan (English What's New)national · checked every 60 minutes · 9 items routed · Official BoJ RSS; English edition verified (a Japanese edition is also published). Headline + link only.
3. Bank of Japan what’s new (Japanese feed)published in ja · checked every 60 minutes · 12 items routed
4. Cabinet Office of Japannational · published in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 5 items routed · Official RSS 1.0 (RDF) listed on the Cabinet Office RSS page. Low volume (about 10 current items); Japanese only.
5. Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁)published in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 12 items routed
6. Digital Agency of Japan (デジタル庁)national · published in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 8 items routed · Official RSS advertised on the homepage. Japanese only; policy-heavy items.
7. Financial Services Agency newsnational · published in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 3 items routed · VERIFIED BUT NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THIS DESK: works (official RSS 2.0), but the content is financial-supervision notices with little visitor relevance. Keep as a spare primary source.
8. Japan Meteorological Agency - earthquake list (JSON)Earthquakes recorded by the Japan Meteorological Agency, in the agency's own wording · published in ja · checked every 15 minutes · 60 items routed · Public JSON used by the JMA website; fields are Japanese with English mirrors (en_ttl / en_anm). No key required. Undocumented, so re-check after JMA site changes.
9. Japan Meteorological Agency - earthquake/volcano XML feednational · published in ja · checked every 15 minutes · 10 items routed · Official JMA developer index filtered to earthquake/volcano bulletins; entries link to XML documents. Encoding is not declared; decode as UTF-8. Japanese only.
10. Japan Meteorological Agency - regular XML feednational · published in ja · checked every 15 minutes · 56 items routed · Official JMA developer index: entries link to individual XML documents (warnings, advisories, forecasts), not to articles. Encoding is not declared; decode as UTF-8. Japanese only.
11. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheriespublished in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 12 items routed
12. Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare newspublished in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 14 items routed
13. Statistics Bureau of Japan (e-Stat)published in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 12 items routed
14. Tokyo Metropolitan Government press releasestokyo · published in ja · checked every 60 minutes · Feed is a portal CMS RSS (asset_publisher knkg), linked from the TMG homepage; a second publisher feed (lnir) exists but returned 0 items. Japanese only; large payload (about 325 KB).
15. Aviation Wireindustry · published in ja · checked every 60 minutes · 2 items routed · Independent aviation trade publisher; JAL, ANA and airport announcements are covered as industry news because both airlines' own press sites block this network. Japanese only.
16. Osaka Metro newspublished in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 12 items routed
17. Response.jpnational · published in ja · checked every 60 minutes · 10 items routed · Independent transport/auto trade publisher; feed advertised on the homepage as /rss20/index.rdf. Headline + excerpt; Japanese only.
18. Traffic Newsnational · published in ja · checked every 30 minutes · 4 items routed · Independent transport news publisher (brand: 乗りものニュース). Feed items have no per-item date field; they are ordered newest-first, so diff by link. Japanese only.

Discovery and culture

1. ARTSCAPE (DNP) art criticismnational · published in ja · checked every 180 minutes · Published by DNP; Japanese-only exhibition reviews and art criticism. Tokyo Art Beat has no feed, so this is the working art-criticism alternative.
2. MATCHAnational · checked every 60 minutes · 7 items routed · Commercial travel-content publisher; feed carries large full-ish HTML descriptions (about 590 KB per fetch), so cap stored bytes. English and Japanese editions.
3. Tokyo Cheapotokyo · checked every 60 minutes · 6 items routed · Independent English Tokyo guide; free feed with excerpt-only summaries.
4. Tokyo Weekendertokyo · checked every 60 minutes · 2 items routed · Free feed, short summaries, about 10 current items - low volume but steady.

Other sources

1. Japan National Tourism Organization newspublished in ja · checked every 180 minutes · 12 items routed

Checked by hand, not monitored

• Japan Today
• JNTO Travel Japan
• NHK World news
• NHK WORLD-JAPAN (English news)