Turning Japanese press releases (PR TIMES) into an LLM-ready dataset in 5 minutes
If you build anything that needs to understand the Japanese market — competitor monitoring, PR analytics, a RAG assistant for a sales team — you quickly run into a gap: most of the good structured news data is in English, and the Japanese sources that matter are not in your usual scraping toolkit. PR TIMES is the one to know. It is Japan's largest press-release distribution platform: more than…
PR TIMES, Japan's top press-release distribution platform, contains more than 100,000 company releases. It's the go-to source for Japanese companies looking to announce funding rounds, new store openings, product launches, and partnerships. Each release is consistent in format and includes a category, timestamp, and URL. The platform's data is clean and well-structured, making it ideal for feeding into large language models (LLMs) without needing to build a scraper first.
To use it, you can input keywords, company IDs, or release URLs. The free plan on Apify allows for about 5× faster and cheaper processing. Companies use this data for competitor monitoring, Japanese RAG corpora creation, PR analytics, and lead generation. Always attribute the source and summarize rather than republish the content.
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