The posting benchmark

News brands in Japan on Facebook

Our count of public Facebook posts from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026 holds seven news brands in Japan. Here they are side by side, each beside the median in Japan, then the median news brand's day, hours and formats.

Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

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Every news brand, A to Z

At a glance

Median posts a day: at least 12
Median engagement a day: at least 530
Median engagement per post: 7
Total engagement, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026: at least 571,000

Engagement is reactions, comments and shares. Each median is across the news brands in Japan; the total adds up all of their posts.

Brand by brand

Every news brand in Japan, side by side

Each dot is one news brand in Japan, placed by the measure you choose, with the median and middle half across them. 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026.

Our count

Posts a day on each news brand's Facebook Page.

Median in Japan: at least 12 a day
Middle half in Japan: 7.6 to 25.7

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7 news brands in Japan, placed by posts a day, with the median and middle half across them. The scale is logarithmic, so 1 to 10 takes the same width as 10 to 100. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

Posts each day, news brand by news brand

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Median in Japan
Middle half in Japan
Each news brand

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Median posts each day across news brands in Japan, with the middle half of them shaded, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026.
Day	Median in Japan	Middle half in Japan
Monday 29 June	16	8.5 to 29
Tuesday 30 June	15	8.5 to 26
Wednesday 1 July	13	6.5 to 31.5
Thursday 2 July	11	7.5 to 28.5
Friday 3 July	11	9.5 to 27.5
Saturday 4 July	6	0.5 to 20
Sunday 5 July	10	2 to 23
Monday 6 July	16	11.5 to 29
Tuesday 7 July	17	11 to 28.5
Wednesday 8 July	16	11.5 to 28.5
Thursday 9 July	19	10 to 31
Friday 10 July	19	11.5 to 29.5
Saturday 11 July	10	0.5 to 21.5
Sunday 12 July	10	1 to 23
Monday 13 July	18	13.5 to 34.5
Tuesday 14 July	16	9.5 to 29
Wednesday 15 July	14	10.5 to 37
Thursday 16 July	20	14 to 33
Friday 17 July	12	7.5 to 29
Saturday 18 July	7	0.5 to 9
Sunday 19 July	10	0.5 to 15.5
Monday 20 July	11	0.5 to 32.5
Tuesday 21 July	13	8.5 to 34
Wednesday 22 July	19	12.5 to 35.5
Thursday 23 July	16	11.5 to 36.5
Friday 24 July	18	12 to 28.5
Saturday 25 July	8	0.5 to 18.5
Sunday 26 July	10	3 to 22
Monday 27 July	16	10.5 to 32
Tuesday 28 July	13	10 to 35
Wednesday 29 July	13	8 to 30.5
Thursday 30 July	18	12 to 32.5
Friday 31 July	16	9 to 29.5
Saturday 1 August	7	1 to 19
Sunday 2 August	10	1 to 23
Monday 3 August	11	6 to 32.5
Tuesday 4 August	14	12.5 to 32.5
Wednesday 5 August	13	11 to 32.5
Thursday 6 August	18	10.5 to 32
Friday 7 August	19	12.5 to 28
Saturday 8 August	1	0.5 to 15.5
Sunday 9 August	9	1 to 24.5
Monday 10 August	20	14.5 to 29.5
Tuesday 11 August	7	1 to 23
Wednesday 12 August	10	8 to 29.5
Thursday 13 August	12	5.5 to 27
Friday 14 August	10	4.5 to 29.5
Saturday 15 August	10	1 to 19
Sunday 16 August	10	1.5 to 18.5
Monday 17 August	23	8.5 to 31.5
Tuesday 18 August	11	9 to 34.5
Wednesday 19 August	17	9 to 30.5
Thursday 20 August	22	8 to 35
Friday 21 August	14	5.5 to 25.5
Saturday 22 August	1	0 to 26.5
Sunday 23 August	1	0 to 13.5
Monday 24 August	27	8 to 35.5
Tuesday 25 August	23	9 to 38.5
Wednesday 26 August	14	6 to 36
Thursday 27 August	13	3.5 to 32
Friday 28 August	8	1 to 37
Saturday 29 August	2	0 to 16
Sunday 30 August	1	0 to 22
Monday 31 August	28	3 to 36.5
Tuesday 1 September	17	7.5 to 31.5
Wednesday 2 September	14	6 to 32
Thursday 3 September	17	1 to 28
Friday 4 September	7	1.5 to 31.5
Saturday 5 September	0	0 to 17
Sunday 6 September	2	0 to 18.5
Monday 7 September	15	1.5 to 30
Tuesday 8 September	15	1.5 to 33
Wednesday 9 September	17	8 to 30.5
Thursday 10 September	11	6 to 32.5
Friday 11 September	9	0.5 to 29.5
Saturday 12 September	0	0 to 14
Sunday 13 September	3	0 to 19
Monday 14 September	15	5 to 31.5
Tuesday 15 September	19	4.5 to 29.5
Wednesday 16 September	10	5 to 32.5
Thursday 17 September	13	6 to 31
Friday 18 September	15	7.5 to 34
Saturday 19 September	2	0.5 to 21
Sunday 20 September	0	0 to 17.5

The median news brand

The median news brand in Japan

Medians across the seven news brands we compared in Japan, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are each news brand's local time.

Share of posts by local hour

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Median share of posts in each local hour across news brands in Japan.
Local hour	Median share
00:00	0%
01:00	0%
02:00	0%
03:00	0%
04:00	0%
05:00	0%
06:00	0%
07:00	3.6%
08:00	1.7%
09:00	2.8%
10:00	1.7%
11:00	8.3%
12:00	9.5%
13:00	7.6%
14:00	12.8%
15:00	6.2%
16:00	7.7%
17:00	8%
18:00	7.9%
19:00	4.4%
20:00	6%
21:00	4.5%
22:00	7.2%
23:00	0.1%

Posts a day by weekday

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Median posts a day on each local weekday across news brands in Japan.
Weekday	Median posts a day
Monday	13.3
Tuesday	15.8
Wednesday	12.8
Thursday	17.4
Friday	10.9
Saturday	5.92
Sunday	5.75

What they posted

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Median share of each format among posts by news brands in Japan.
Format	Median in Japan
Photo	4%
Video or reel	0%
Album	0%
Link	96%
Text only	0%
Other	0%

The news brands

Every news brand in Japan

Each news brand's own figures. Sort by any column, and choose which columns to show. Being counted says nothing about which tools a newsroom uses.

Columns

News brands in Japan, A to Z: their figures, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.


47NEWS	Under 100k	1.5	12	5	1.1	0%	1%	110%
Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+	Under 100k	6.9	29	3	2.6	1%	45%	80%
Kyodo News (English)	100k to 1m	at least 8.4	at least 6.4	0	at least 0.7	0%	8%	0%
Nikkei (Nihon Keizai Shimbun / Nikkei Online)	100k to 1m	37	4,417	72	306	7%	33%	60%
Nikkei Asia	100k to 1m	55.2	1,115	8	90	12%	28%	85%
The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi Shimbun Digital)	100k to 1m	12	683	31	67	5%	44%	65%
The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch (AJW)	100k to 1m	14.4	530	7	63	57%	14%	0%

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