Japanese Financial Media: Nikkei, NHK and Jiji, in the Same API

Japanese Financial Media: Nikkei, NHK and Jiji, in the Same API

Tokyo opens hours before most of the desks that will eventually write about it in English.

If you want that gap, your options have been a scraping project or a translated summary that arrives after the move. Neither is a data source you can build on.

Japanese coverage is now in the API, in the same schema as everything else, filterable by language and market.

The domestic sources

All seven are in the default source set. Six publish in Japanese; Nikkei Asia is the English title in the group, which makes it useful as a bridge when you want the same story in both languages.

47NEWS is the one worth a second look. National wires cover the listed parent; the regional press covers the plant, the prefecture, and the local employer. That reporting rarely makes it into English at all.

And the rest of the world

Sitting alongside it, in the same schema: Bloomberg, Reuters, the WSJ, the FT, CNBC, Barron's, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance and Benzinga; Caixin, East Money, Cailian Press and Yicai in Chinese; Channel NewsAsia across the region; AP, PR Newswire and GlobeNewswire; CoinDesk and The Block for digital assets.

One integration instead of a scraping team.

Why it matters

Japanese-language coverage lands first and English follows, so with both in one index you can measure the lag rather than guess at it. You can compare how a name is written up domestically against how it reads to foreign investors on the same day, and you can pick up the regional reporting that never crosses over.

Using it

Articles are fetched with a POST to /v2/articles. The language parameter defaults to en, so set it explicitly to get Japanese coverage:

curl -X POST 'https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "language": "ja", "query": "日銀" }'

To narrow to Tokyo-listed companies, filter on the exchange inside the query. XJPX is the MIC code for Japan Exchange Group:

curl -X POST 'https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "language": "ja", "query": "exchange:XJPX", "includeEntities": true }'

includeEntities returns the resolved companies behind each article and requires a paid tier. All seven Japanese sources are in the default source set, so there's no new endpoint and no migration. Just the language parameter.

Check it before you write any code

You don't have to integrate first to see what's there. The API Tester in the dashboard builds the request, sets language, and shows the live response, so you can validate the coverage on your own tickers in a couple of minutes. The Sources page lists every source with its language and whether it's in your default feed, and the WebSocket Tester does the same for the live stream.

Also live: China

Caixin, East Money, Cailian Press, Yicai and Wallstreetcn shipped in the same push. See Chinese Financial Media for the full list and the language=zh equivalent.

Start with a free key

Japanese-language coverage is live on every plan, including the free tier. Create a key, run a query, see what comes back. No credit card, no sales call.

When you outgrow it, Pro Light covers smaller production workloads, and Pro Standard and Pro Scale add the volume and limits that trading and research teams need.

Missing a source you rely on? Get in touch. Customer requests are a large part of how this list grows.

Where to go next

• Chinese Financial Media, the same push for China.
• Tickers & Exchanges Done Right for filtering dual-listed companies.
• Multilingual Financial News API.
• Full documentation.

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