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US Marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of murder

Rank
Running
46h
Updated
9h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
12
Regions
4
Countries
11
Languages
5

+1

Times of India India · English 4 Oct, 04:45 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in 日本語 (2) · Français (1) · Português (1) · 한국어 (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 12 after 48 hours.

5 10 15
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Asahi Shimbun, 3 Oct, 23:10 UTC.
  2. Second country: South Korea, with Hankyoreh.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Gulf News.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 4 Oct, 04:45 UTC.
  5. Now: 12 outlets.

Where it travelled

48 of 48 hours

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The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

58%17%17%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 6 countries · 58%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 17%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 17%

First movers

  1. The Asahi Shimbun 3 Oct, 23:10 UTC
  2. Hankyoreh +3h 10m
  3. FNN +3h 49m
  4. Times of India +5h 35m
  5. ARY News +6h 9m

Latest arrivals

  1. The Independent 5 Oct, 13:31 UTC
  2. Taipei Times 5 Oct, 00:00 UTC
  3. CNN Brasil 4 Oct, 13:20 UTC
  4. Asharq Al-Awsat 4 Oct, 08:50 UTC
  5. Le Figaro 4 Oct, 07:46 UTC

The figures

Coverage
12 outlets in 11 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 12 outlets, 1 state-owned, 11 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 6: India, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan. Europe 2: France, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. 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, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Asahi Shimbun, 3 Oct 2026, 23:10 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 00:10 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 13:31 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 not hard news, unsure. Left off 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
0.65, 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.
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
4 Oct 2026 69 6.46 10 9 9 9 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 00:10 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 13:31 UTC

Covered by 12 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 4 Oct, 13:20 UTC
    Militar dos EUA é acusado de roubo e assassinato em hotel japonês

Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • Taipei Times Taiwan 5 Oct, 00:00 UTC
    US marine arrested in Okinawa
  • CNA Singapore 4 Oct, 05:38 UTC
    US Marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of murder
  • ARY News Pakistan 4 Oct, 05:19 UTC
    US Marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of murder
  • Times of India India 4 Oct, 04:45 UTC
    US Marine arrested in Japan over murder, robbery of local woman
  • FNN Japan 4 Oct, 03:00 UTC
    米海兵隊員を強盗殺人の容疑で緊急逮捕
  • Hankyoreh South Korea 4 Oct, 02:20 UTC
    ‘일본인 여성 살해 혐의’ 오키나와 주둔 미 해병대원 긴급 체포
  • The Asahi Shimbun Japan 3 Oct, 23:10 UTC
    強盗殺人容疑で普天間基地の米兵を緊急逮捕 ホテルで女性殺害疑い

Europe 2 outlets

  • The Independent United Kingdom 5 Oct, 13:31 UTC
    Japan asks for ‘maximum cooperation’ after US Marine arrested over murder
  • Le Figaro France 4 Oct, 07:46 UTC
    Un marine américain arrêté pour meurtre au Japon

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 4 Oct, 08:50 UTC
    Japan: US Marine Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Woman
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 4 Oct, 05:21 UTC
    US Marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of murder as Washington vows full probe
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