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Alleged murder on Okinawa sparks protests against US military presence

Rank
Running
32h
Updated
2h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
4

Daily Mail United Kingdom · English 11 Oct, 00:53 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Español (1) · 中文 (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 32 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Der Spiegel, 10 Oct, 19:06 UTC.
  2. Second country: United Kingdom, with Daily Mail.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Japan Times.
  4. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

33 of 33 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%50%33%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 50%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%

First movers

  1. Der Spiegel 10 Oct, 19:06 UTC
  2. Daily Mail +5h 47m
  3. The Japan Times +10h 6m
  4. Clarín +12h 4m
  5. Malay Mail +17h 54m

Latest arrivals

  1. United Daily News 12 Oct, 01:00 UTC
  2. Malay Mail 11 Oct, 13:00 UTC
  3. Clarín 11 Oct, 07:10 UTC
  4. The Japan Times 11 Oct, 05:12 UTC
  5. Daily Mail 11 Oct, 00:53 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Okinawa seeks revision of US military pact after Marine murder, 8 to 9 Oct 2026, 12 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 3: Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan. Europe 2: Germany, United Kingdom. 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
German, English, Spanish, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Der Spiegel, 10 Oct 2026, 19:06 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 19:20 UTC. Last seen 12 Oct 2026, 01:00 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 Conflict & Security. 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
1.10, as of now. 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
Continues Okinawa seeks revision of US military pact after Marine murder. 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
11 Oct 2026 258 3.11 5 5 4 4 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 19:20 UTC · Updated 12 Oct, 01:00 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • United Daily News Taiwan 12 Oct, 01:00 UTC
    美軍殺人案激怒沖繩 高市「台灣有事」大計恐受挫?
  • Malay Mail Malaysia 11 Oct, 13:00 UTC
    ‘How many more women?’ Fury in Okinawa as US presence faces renewed backlash
  • Clarín Argentina 11 Oct, 07:10 UTC
    Okinawa sigue frustrada tras asesinato presuntamente cometido por un marine
  • The Japan Times Japan 11 Oct, 05:12 UTC
    ‘Everyone is angry’: Okinawans fearful and frustrated after killing
  • Daily Mail United Kingdom 11 Oct, 00:53 UTC
    A horrific murder allegation has left furious Japanese locals protesting US marines in their country... but for a greater good, things will likely not be allowed to change
  • Der Spiegel Germany 10 Oct, 19:06 UTC
    Japan: Mutmaßlicher Mordfall auf Okinawa - Warum jetzt gegen das US-Militär protestiert wird
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