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Nishinippon (西日本新聞) is a news website operated by the Nishinippon Shimbun newspaper, which holds the top market share in Kyushu. Based in Fukuoka's Tenjin district, it reports on society, politics, economics, culture, sports, entertainment, education, and health across multiple regional editions covering Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Oita, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, and Yamaguchi prefectures, and actively covers local sports teams including the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
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Current facts
Latest available measurements; dated entries retain their dates. These are measurements, not an endorsement of the site.
not yet retrieved
Registrar and registration date not retrieved yet — we retry on every view.
latest result
HTTPS request succeeded for www.nishinippon.co.jp.
We withhold an authority number until independent evidence (global rank, link-graph presence) has accrued. The facts we do have about this site are shown below — we'd rather say “not enough signals yet” than invent a low score.
Safety evidence
No unexpired threat-feed result; name-similarity check available (recorded about 20 days ago); 3/3 transport and email checks available (oldest recorded about 20 days ago). This is evidence coverage, not a probability that a website is safe.
No caution flags in the available scoring observations; this is not a complete safety assessment
Site history
Dated record — historical facts always carry their date; self-description below is the 2013 record.
2006
First tracked by AboutUs (Jun 21, 2006); profile edited 2 times through 2013.
2013
Self-description at the time:
“NishiNippon.co.jp - Japanese news site with articles on medicine, science & more”