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Proof: Japan elderly population hits fresh high at 29.4%: 2025 census

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-29T07:01:25Z","headline":"Japan elderly population hits fresh high at 29.4%: 2025 census","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"kyodo","url":"https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/86663","v":1}

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SHA-256

d02a55fe25e157fc38807b5d8b401bbbfa98b47f28fb3dae3ba70941f5f0645d

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969120, mined 2026-09-29 07:42 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-29 07:03 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d02a55fe25e1.json prints d02a55fe25e157fc38807b5d8b401bbbfa98b47f28fb3dae3ba70941f5f0645d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-d02a55fe25e1.json and headline-d02a55fe25e1.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-d02a55fe25e1.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.