{"datasets":[{"slug":"cpi-jp","title":"Consumer Price Index — Japan (national, middle-class indices)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2020=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official national CPI middle-class indices from January 1970 to the latest month, on the 2020 base. Includes headline and exclusion-based aggregates, the ten major expenditure groups, and middle-class items."},{"slug":"cpi-jp-items","title":"Consumer Price Index — Japan (national, detailed items)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2020=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official national CPI at full item depth from January 1970 to the latest month, on the 2020 base: every published aggregation level plus the individual items priced for the index (about 740 series)."},{"slug":"boj-assets","title":"Bank of Japan — Asset Holdings and Transactions","country":"Japan","agency":"Bank of Japan","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"End-of-month stocks and during-month flows of the Bank of Japan's principal balance-sheet items — JGB holdings with gross outright purchases and redemptions, Treasury discount bills, corporate bonds, ETFs, J-REITs, loans, and the monetary base — in units of ¥100 million, July 1996 to the latest month. Flows can be negative: a negative JGB net flow is balance-sheet runoff (QT). Source database MD09, 'Monetary Base and the Bank of Japan's Transactions'."},{"slug":"jgb-yields","title":"JGB Yield Curve — Constant-Maturity Yields","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"daily","description":"Daily constant-maturity yields on Japanese government bonds for 15 maturities from 1 to 40 years, in percent, computed by the Ministry of Finance from JSDA reference prices and published every business day since September 1974. Longer maturities begin when the tenor was first issued (40-year in 2007). Yields can be negative."},{"slug":"jnto-visitors","title":"Visitor Arrivals to Japan — by market","country":"Japan","agency":"Japan National Tourism Organization","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly foreign visitor arrivals to Japan by market, from January 2003, as published by the Japan National Tourism Organization: the national total, six regional totals, and named markets down to individual countries. Computed by JNTO from Ministry of Justice immigration statistics; excludes foreign permanent residents and crew, includes landings at a port of call, in transit and cruise passengers. The two most recent months are estimates covering a subset of markets, superseded by provisional and then definitive figures."},{"slug":"population-jp","title":"Population by Prefecture — Japan (Basic Resident Register)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Population, households and the year's register flows for all 47 prefectures and the national total, from the Basic Resident Register as of 1 January, split three ways — all residents, Japanese residents and foreign residents — with population by five-year age band and sex for each. Administrative counts of registered residents, not a survey estimate."},{"slug":"population-jp-history","title":"Prefecture Population, Long Run — Japan (Regional Statistics)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Population, age structure, foreign residents, households, births, deaths and migration for all 47 prefectures and the national total, back to 1975, from the System of Social and Demographic Statistics (社会・人口統計体系) table A, Population and Households. Compiled by the Statistics Bureau from the census, the population estimates, vital statistics and the Basic Resident Register, so reference dates differ by indicator: register counts are as of 1 January of the following year, estimates as of 1 October, and births, deaths and migration are calendar-year flows, as is the total fertility rate, the one published rate carried here. Coverage varies by indicator — foreign register counts begin in 2013, the fertility rate in 1980, and household counts appear only in census years."},{"slug":"trade-semis","title":"Semiconductor Trade — Exports and Imports by Partner","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese trade in semiconductors, semiconductor components and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, by partner country, from January 2001. Value in thousands of yen and quantity in the commodity's published unit, exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance in the principal-commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Export and import commodity classifications are separate and their codes do not correspond."},{"slug":"population-jp-municipal","title":"Population by Municipality — Japan (Basic Resident Register)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Population, households and the year's register flows for every municipality in Japan — about 1,900 cities, towns, villages and wards — from the Basic Resident Register as of 1 January, split into all residents, Japanese residents and foreign residents, with population by five-year age band and sex for each. Designated cities, districts and Tokyo's island grouping are published as totals alongside the municipalities they contain; those rows are marked and must never be added to the rest."},{"slug":"trade-inputs","title":"Semiconductor Inputs — Wafers by Partner (HS detail)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese exports and imports of silicon wafers (HS 3818.00) by partner country from January 2001, from the HS-detail commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Value in thousands of yen and quantity in kilograms, exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance. The raw material one step upstream of the chips in trade-semis."},{"slug":"rice-prices-jp","title":"Rice Contract Prices — by Origin and Variety (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly volume-weighted average contract prices for Japanese table rice, in yen per 60kg of brown rice including freight, packaging and consumption tax, for each 産地品種銘柄 origin-and-variety brand and for the published all-brand average. Surveyed by MAFF among shippers handling 5,000 tonnes a year or more, monthly from September 2008. A brand-month with no contract, or with under 100 tonnes contracted, is not published and stays missing."},{"slug":"rice-inventory-jp","title":"Private Rice Inventories — Japan","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"End-of-month private-sector stocks of brown rice held by the trade, in ten thousand tonnes, monthly from July 2020. Split by the stage holding the stock — shippers, wholesalers and the two combined — and within each stage between the current crop and one-year-old rice. Published by MAFF with the monthly rice contract-price release."},{"slug":"agri-prices","title":"Agricultural Price Indices — Output and Inputs (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":"2020=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly price indices for what Japanese farmers sell and what they buy, on the 2020 base — 20 classes of farm output from rice to raw milk, and 17 classes of farm input from fertiliser and feed to machinery, fuel and hired services. The confirmed annual report is published with a long lag, so the newest month is normally more than a year old. Input prices run from April 1957 and output prices from April 1963."},{"slug":"rice-production-cost","title":"Rice Production Cost — Japan","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"What it costs to grow a crop of rice in Japan, by crop year — every cost line from seed and fertiliser to machinery depreciation and family labour, and the three published cost levels: total spend, cost net of by-products, and full cost with interest on own capital and rent on own land imputed. Stated per 10 ares and per 60kg, nationally from the 1951 crop and by planted-area band from 1960."},{"slug":"ja-statistics","title":"Agricultural Co-operatives — Segment Income Statement (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"The Japanese agricultural co-operatives' own income statement, split across the businesses they run — banking, mutual insurance, farm marketing and supply, living services and farm guidance — in thousands of yen by fiscal year from 2004, including the farm-guidance loss charged back to the segments that earn. National, from MAFF's annual census of every multi-purpose co-operative."},{"slug":"accommodation-jp","title":"Accommodation Survey — guest nights and occupancy","country":"Japan","agency":"Japan Tourism Agency","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly guest nights and room occupancy in Japanese accommodation, from the Japan Tourism Agency's Accommodation Survey. Guest nights for the nation, the 47 prefectures and the 10 transport-bureau regions run from January 2011, split into Japanese and foreign guests, with room occupancy by hotel type over the same span. From January 2019 the detail opens up: foreign guest nights by 24 visitor nationalities, guest nights by hotel type, and the leisure/business and in-prefecture/out-of-prefecture splits. Facility-size bands and 175 named municipalities begin in January 2026, when the survey changed how it stratifies properties."}]}