{
  "id": 10669905,
  "title": "Toyama City Staff Suspected of Inflating Population in Census",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/toyama-city-staff-suspected-of-inflating-population-in-census",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T10:02:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026092900671/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Toyama, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--Staff of the Toyama city government may have inflated the central Japan city's population in the 2025 census, it was learned Tuesday. On the day, the internal affairs ministry submitted a criminal complaint against unidentified city staff to the Toyama prefectural police department. The city population is believed to have been padded by at least 2,000, and se...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}