Observed arrival · 2026-10-20
Map News: Current Events, Plotted
A collection of maps that locates current news and public-interest data, from bear incidents and traffic deaths to Olympic medals and Nobel laureates.
- For
- Japanese readers tracking local safety and global events
- Worth noticing
- The homepage lists nine maps, including 19,789 bear sightings and 1,036 Nobel laureates, and says unverifiable items are excluded.
Field notes
The bear map combines reported individual incidents with resident X and YouTube sightings and Environment Ministry prefectural totals; its homepage labels the 19,789 figure as April–August preliminary data. The traffic map draws on National Police Agency open data, while the fraud map uses prefectural disclosures and notes differences in how prefectures publish them. The site says each location is source-linked and unverifiable information is left out.
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