Observed arrival · 2026-10-18
ほんとかな？ — Checking the numbers in Japanese news
A Japanese fact-checking project that traces political and news claims to primary sources, with a calculator comparing a food-tax cut against ¥80,000 per person.
- For
- Japanese readers comparing food-tax policy claims
- Worth noticing
- The page contrasts a ¥36,000-per-person estimate with its household food-spending estimates of roughly ¥21,000–¥25,000.
Field notes
The project sets out a repeatable checking procedure: go to primary records, show the cited passage, and preserve an archive link when a news article may change. Its displayed food-tax example distinguishes the arithmetic of dividing an estimated ¥4.3 trillion revenue reduction by the population from estimates based on household food spending. The site identifies itself as independently operated and says its calculations are approximate, not guarantees of actual savings.
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