Japan News API

There are 46 news sources being monitored from Japan. Daily, over 686 news items are added.

The country code for Japan is jp. For every API endpoint that asks for source-country, just put jp to retrieve news from Japan. And the language code of Japan is ja, use this two-letter code for the language parameter.

Historically, you can search news from Japan starting January 1st, 2022.



API Examples of how to work with news from Japan

Here are some examples how you can get breaking news, search by category, and get front pages for Japan. Be sure to check out the in-depth documentation as each API offers many different parameters to explore.

Get today's breaking news from Japan
source-country=jp
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/top-news?source-country=jp
See the full documentation of how to get news headlines.
Get live news from Japan
source-country=jp
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/search-news?source-country=jp
See the full documentation of how to search news.
Get news from Japan in the last week for the category politics
source-country=jp categories=politics
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/search-news?source-country=jp&categories=politics
See the full documentation of how to search news by category.
Get front pages from news papers in Japan
source-country=jp date=2024-07-09
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/retrieve-front-page?source-country=jp&date=2024-07-09
See the full documentation of how to get newspaper front pages.

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