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Japan's official data, rebuilt for institutional use.
Comprehensive official statistics and company filings for Japan, rebuilt from the primary sources and archived as point-in-time vintages. Every figure carries its source and a permanent URL.
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Datasets
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Listed companies
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Filings parsed
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Primary sources
Your Investment Assistant Ask in plain language. The answer is drawn from the same API, and charted or tabulated beside it.
Or Call It Directly REST, JSON, no key
Request
GET /api/v1/cpi-jp/observations ?series=0001&measure=yoy &start=2016-01 &as_of=… # the release in force on that date
One endpoint per dataset. Add as_of and you get the vintage a
reader would have seen that day, not today's revision. API reference
Response
{ … }
Live response, abbreviated to its first points.
Why It Can Be Trusted
Primary sources only
Every source file archived with its checksum.
Point-in-time vintages
A revision is a new vintage. Any date is replayable.
Official vs calculated
Published values exact. Computed values show their formula.
Every view has an address
The URL carries the whole chart or table.
From Asia Economics Observations The research letter written on this data
Built For
Sell-side economists
The Japan chart pack, citable.
Contributions to headline CPI by group, breadth across 582 items, the curve on any date, the BOJ balance sheet by asset. Every chart exports with its source embedded.
Quant and data teams
One endpoint per dataset, vintage-selectable.
Replay any dataset as it stood on a given date for a point-in-time backtest. JSON with the formula and calc version in the payload.
Academics
Free, stable URLs, stated methodology.
Cite the page. The number, the formula and the source file behind it stay reachable at that address.