JP Data
Research Notes
Short public-data archaeology notes: what official Japanese sources expose, what they only imply, and what remains difficult to verify without guessing.
- Research Note 010··Visual wasabi evidence index
Can buyers actually find and order Japanese wasabi online?
A plain-English visual audit of 20 public wasabi-source pages. The sample asks whether buyers can move from product visibility to source proof and a practical next buying step.
- Research Note 009··Visual rice evidence index
Can buyers actually find and order Japanese rice online?
A plain-English visual audit of 20 public rice-source pages. The sample asks one practical question: can a buyer verify the source and understand the next buying step?
- Research Note 008··Kawazu Town source inventory
Kawazu Wildlife Control Overview
Kawazu Town’s R5-R7 wildlife-damage prevention plan, subsidy page, and bear caution notice show how local wildlife policy splits into target species, damage baselines, capture targets, bounties, prevention subsidies, trap lending, and safety notices.
- Research Note 007··Izu City source inventory
Izu City wildlife data is a stack of separate public layers
Izu City publishes a broad wildlife-damage prevention plan plus current notice pages for monkeys, bears, and wildlife protection. The useful dashboard keeps damage, sightings, warnings, protection context, and capture operations separate.
- Research Note 006··Source inventory
Japan’s wild-animal event data starts as separate official layers
MAFF and the Ministry of the Environment publish broad public records for crop damage, capture counts, bear sightings, bear injuries, and boar injuries. They can support an all-wildlife dashboard only if each measurement stays visible on its own terms.
- Research Note 005··First version
Bear warnings in Zao Town, Miyagi
Zao Town posts recent bear warnings with dates, places, and report types. Miyagi Prefecture also publishes annual spreadsheets, but the town warnings and prefecture rows do not always match one-to-one.
- Research Note 004··First version
Miyagi publishes bear reports by city, ward, town, and village
Miyagi Prefecture posts annual and current spreadsheets of bear sightings and signs. They show prefecturewide totals, monthly timing, and the local area named for each report, so Zao Town and Sendai wards can be checked separately from town alert messages and injury notices.
- Research Note 003··First version
Norikura Kogen Bear Alert Data
Norikura Kogen’s bear records are scattered across Nagano Prefecture summaries, a Matsumoto-region advisory, Matsumoto City’s sighting table, local Suzuran planning records, and Gifu’s Tatamidaira visitor table.
- Research Note 002··First version
Hyogo bear activity is visible in public data, but not in one table
A first JP Data archaeology of Hyogo bear records: prefectural sightings/traces, human injury rows, monthly seasonality, and Taka Town warning PDFs read as separate public-data layers rather than one aggregate risk number.