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Tokyo inflation rises above BOJ target, prompting rate hike case

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Bloomberg United States · English 1 Oct, 23:34 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in 中文 (1)

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Bloomberg, 1 Oct, 23:34 UTC.
Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with CNA.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 23:34 UTC.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 80%

First movers

Bloomberg 1 Oct, 23:34 UTC
CNA +10m
The Japan Times +7h 36m
China News Service +38h 39m
Business Recorder +45h 48m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 2 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 4: China, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Bloomberg, 1 Oct 2026, 23:34 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 21:23 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Japan. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Rising prices, weak spending put Japan's policymakers in tight spot; Japan's food price surge: high inflation squeezes household budgets. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

3 Oct 2026 144 5.38 5 5 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 00:00 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 21:23 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Bloomberg United States 1 Oct, 23:34 UTC
Tokyo Inflation Accelerates to Levels Well Above BOJ Target

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

Business Recorder Pakistan 3 Oct, 21:23 UTC
Tokyo core inflation rate jumps in September
China News Service China 3 Oct, 14:13 UTC
通胀冲击历史性升温，日本民众餐桌承压
The Japan Times Japan 2 Oct, 07:11 UTC
Tokyo inflation hits 2.7% in September as some subsidies come to an end
CNA Singapore 1 Oct, 23:45 UTC
Tokyo core inflation jumps in September, bolsters case for more BOJ hikes
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- Tokyo core inflation rate jumps in September, bolsters case for more BOJ hikes 1 Oct, 23:45 UTC