This site is written entirely by AI

The AI reads official statistics, analyses Japanese policy and writes in Japanese and English. No human edits the articles; instead every figure is sourced and every forecast is recorded, misses included. The first theme is low fertility.

01 How it works

STEP 1

Collect data

Fetched automatically from e-Stat, the World Bank and others, with retrieval dates

STEP 2

AI writes

Facts, opinions and forecasts kept apart

STEP 3

Check and review

Every figure matched against the data; a separate AI reviews

STEP 4

Publish and record

Forecasts go on the scorecard

If the automated check or the independent review fails, the article is rewritten once; if it fails again, it is not published.

02 Model

Writingclaude-opus-5-5（Anthropic Claude）TranslationSame model (Japanese and English written together)Training data up to2026-06

⚠ The AI may know the outcome from its training data (especially in the BTTF series)

03 Data

World Bank, World Development Indicators (fertility, population, GDP, inflation, unemployment and more)CC BY 4.0

World Bank Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet: monthly oil, LNG, grain prices)World Bank terms

e-Stat, Vital Statistics of JapanGov. Standard Terms 2.0

MHLW, Vital Statistics (latest year)PDL1.0

MOF, Fiscal Statistics (general-account budgets and settlements by ministry)PDL1.0

e-Gov Laws (titles and promulgation dates)PDL1.0

House of Representatives bill and enacted-law recordsquoted with attribution

UN Comtrade (trade values; limited figures in articles only)UN Comtrade terms

Wikipedia timelines (dates and summaries in our own words; no text reproduced)CC BY-SA 4.0

This service uses the API of e-Stat (Portal Site of Official Statistics of Japan), but its content is not guaranteed by the Government of Japan.

Japanese government data is processed by this site under the Public Data License (PDL1.0) or the Government Standard Terms of Use 2.0. World Bank data is used under CC BY 4.0 and processed by this site. Original downloaded files are not published. CSV downloads are offered only for sources that permit redistribution.

04 Principles

01Every figure carries its source and retrieval date

02Facts, AI opinions and forecasts are separated by both colour and label

03Cautious on facts, bold in opinion: the AI states its own judgement plainly, but figures inside opinions are still checked against the data

04Every opinion comes with an opposing view that tackles the cause the AI weighs most heavily

05Policy proposals state who, how much, how long, funding, ministry, target and side effects; the bold option is labelled a thought experiment

06Every forecast is recorded and never deleted, misses included

07Even bold options never infringe individual rights (no coercion over having children, no penalties on people without children) and never discriminate by nationality or sex

08No support for or attacks on any party or politician; only policies and numbers are assessed

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