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Proof: Road budget scandal could knock Takaichi’s ambitious agenda off course

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T09:30:10Z","headline":"Road budget scandal could knock Takaichi’s ambitious agenda off course","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"japantimes","url":"https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/06/japan/politics/yana-scandal/","v":1}

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SHA-256

147b21edd99cf6ca0f297fac66abb2be59ed9258a14a5a0f25ced95641d7f5f4

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970158, mined 2026-10-06 10:06 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 09:48 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 09:06 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-147b21edd99c.json prints 147b21edd99cf6ca0f297fac66abb2be59ed9258a14a5a0f25ced95641d7f5f4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-147b21edd99c.json and headline-147b21edd99c.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-147b21edd99c.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, 2 min after it was first seen.