Query
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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on Japan that mention politics.
7.4% of the 27 articles on Japan also mention politics, as do 1.7% of the 121 articles on politics.
- Left-leaning2 of 18 articles
- 11.1%
- Least biased0 of 2 articles
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning0 of 7 articles
- 0.0%
Who picked it up when
Bloomberg mentioned it first (Oct 21, 2026, 2:44 AM EDT). No least biased outlet mentioned it. No right-leaning outlet mentioned it.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
2 articles mention Japan and politics in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg | Popular Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Faces a Vision Test in JapanBloomberg The prime minister has won public backing with a bold vision. | 0.55 | |
| Bloomberg | How Takaichi Commands Global AttentionBloomberg Since becoming Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has been labeled a radical, a reflationist, a neo-militarist, a female leader who is holding women back. Most of these labels range from inaccurate to nonsensical. But what’s undeniable is that she has made the Japanese premiership feel relevant to a degree it hasn’t for years, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Gearoid Ready says. (Source: Bloomberg) | 0.50 |
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Narrow further
Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for Japan and that keyword instead of politics, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Bloomberg | 0.5% | 2 | 382 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning0 of 15 sources
- 0.0%
Lean index −2.4: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.