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Proof: Ibaraki won’t accept second-stage survey for nuclear waste site, governor says

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T11:02:44Z","headline":"Ibaraki won’t accept second-stage survey for nuclear waste site, governor says","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"japantimes","url":"https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/03/japan/science-health/ibaraki-governor-nuclear-waste-survey/","v":1}

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SHA-256

d29cde31b30cb36eb321452352def071cdf54dc9965bb19ef0ececb6e869893e

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969728, mined 2026-10-03 12:05 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 11:07 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 11:07 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d29cde31b30c.json prints d29cde31b30cb36eb321452352def071cdf54dc9965bb19ef0ececb6e869893e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-d29cde31b30c.json and headline-d29cde31b30c.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-d29cde31b30c.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, 4 min after it was first seen.