Cross-search government statistics. The first stop for "numerical evidence" in your inquiry report.
An entry to the background and disclosures of base statistics such as the National Census.
Visualizes population, industry, tourism, and more by prefecture / municipality with maps and graphs. Strong for forming "why?" questions about regional differences.
A catalog to find ministerial open data at the "dataset level".
Cross-search and visualize MLIT-related data.
Money, prices, foreign exchange, and flow of funds — core numbers for the Japanese economy, published officially by Japan's central bank with time-series search and an API. Sound evidence for tracing long-run change.
A primary information source from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, covering the official statistics on food, agriculture, and fisheries. Crop-by-crop output, shipments, and self-sufficiency are available as maps, tables, and CSV — directly supporting local-industry inquiry.
Japan's official figures on energy supply and demand, published as primary information. Covers renewables, fossil fuels, electricity, and consumption — indispensable evidence for climate and energy-policy inquiry.
Official numerical readings on Japan's environment — air, water, greenhouse gases, and chemical substances — published as a primary source. Operated by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) for research and education use.
The Cabinet Office think tank that officially publishes Japan's quarterly GDP, leading indicators, and the Annual Report on the Japanese Economy. Lets you verify the primary source behind policy discussions and serves as a starting point for policy-economy inquiry.
Official Forestry Agency statistics covering national / private forest area, forest resources, and mountain-village areas. Combined with MAFF statistics, gives a full picture of forests, timber, and mountain-village economy.
Japan's window for GBIF, the international framework for sharing biodiversity information. Publishes distribution and specimen data from Japanese museums and research institutions globally. Connects local nature observation to the same-species data worldwide.
The national institute that officially publishes surveillance of infectious diseases, pathogen information, and outbreak predictions. A primary source for treating infectious diseases as "a social phenomenon checkable with data" rather than emotion.
The Japanese national research institute that publishes the official projections of future population, household structure, and social security. A primary reference when discussing aging, low fertility, or regional demographic change.
Japan's node of the global open geographic database — editable maps built by community contributors.
Free media repository — images, audio, video, and documents with verified licenses for reuse.
An official dashboard jointly built by the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency, and the Cabinet Secretariat that exposes about 1,000 indicators at the prefecture and municipality level. Indicators span population, economy, social security, education, living, social infrastructure, and local public finance — and can be viewed on a map, compared across regions, plotted as two-indicator relationships, or trended against four indicators side by side. Functions as a single entry point to Japan's regional differences that pairs well with e-Stat and RESAS.