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Proof: U.S. military in Okinawa pauses operations and enforces curfew in wake of murder

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T03:02:49Z","headline":"U.S. military in Okinawa pauses operations and enforces curfew in wake of murder","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"japantimes","url":"https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/07/japan/crime-legal/us-military-murder-okinawa-regulations/","v":1}

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5e2dc90eed15187f28d54575075c3cbd364a8240cd26e828b7356caddabfe0bb

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970282, mined 2026-10-07 03:35 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:25 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:24 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5e2dc90eed15.json prints 5e2dc90eed15187f28d54575075c3cbd364a8240cd26e828b7356caddabfe0bb. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5e2dc90eed15.json and headline-5e2dc90eed15.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-5e2dc90eed15.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.