Headline Half-Life · headlinehalflife.com · a public record of front pages

← the record

Proof: Back in parliament, Takaichi will face her biggest test yet

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T02:11:56Z","headline":"Back in parliament, Takaichi will face her biggest test yet","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"japantimes","url":"https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/01/japan/politics/takaichi-parliament-test/","v":1}

Download headline-9517ebec266d.json

SHA-256
9517ebec266d26470a0c4e0f0fcb69fec0bb87e6bfcf2b49b9ab0e505bb81755

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969382, mined 2026-10-01 02:18 UTC.

Download headline-9517ebec266d.json.ots

Wayback Machine

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-9517ebec266d.json prints 9517ebec266d26470a0c4e0f0fcb69fec0bb87e6bfcf2b49b9ab0e505bb81755. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-9517ebec266d.json and headline-9517ebec266d.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-9517ebec266d.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
  3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.