{
  "id": 14060673,
  "title": "Announcing 3 New Japanese Market MCP Servers on the Official Registry",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/announcing-3-new-japanese-market-mcp-servers-on-the-official-registry",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T22:32:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/atu_ino_ed473db24d76d234a/announcing-3-new-japanese-market-mcp-servers-on-the-official-registry-epm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Three additional Japanese-market MCP servers have been added to the official MCP Registry, managed by io.github.atushi1841, all currently active. These servers translate three distinct Japanese e-commerce sources into simple MCP tools, enabling agents to query prices and listings without the need for manual HTML scraping. They wrap Apify Store Registry japan-market-mcp, mandarake-surugaya-mcp, and rakuten-japan-mcp, which cross-shop price compare across Mercari, Rakuten, Yahoo! Auctions, and Suruga-ya respectively. Each server is also published as a managed Apify Actor on the Apify Store, providing two ways to access the data: directly through the MCP server or by running the Apify Actor and feeding its JSON output into custom tooling. The reason these servers exist is that major platforms like Rakuten, Mercari, Yahoo! Auctions, and Suruga-ya lack public APIs for ordinary users; they either require enterprise access or scraping, both of which can be inconsistent and unreliable. The japan-market-mcp server is the most frequently used, boasting over 600 runs on Apify since its launch, primarily for cross-shop price comparisons. Meanwhile, rakuten-japan-mcp covers Japan's largest marketplace, while mandarake-surugaya-mcp focuses on the second-hand hobby/goods market, where listings represent individual items rather than catalog SKUs, resulting in per-listing price signals instead of per-product pricing. To connect to these servers, add the following to your MCP client configuration: { \"mcpServers\": { \"japan-market-mcp\": { \"command\": \"npx\", \"args\": [\"-y\", \"@smithery/cli@latest\", \"run\", \"atushi1841/japan-market-mcp\"] } } } Alternatively, open the Smithery page for any server and copy its provided snippet into various text editors like Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Cline. Feedback is requested on which source users would like wrapped next, given the current coverage of EC prices, fuel, real estate, TCG, and anime figures. Additionally, it would be helpful to know if any of these servers fail to connect with specific clients, as the goal is to resolve any transport issues before they are reported. The complete source repository is available on GitHub under the atushi1841 namespace, and the free endpoints do not require API keys.",
  "summary": "Three more Japanese-market MCP servers have landed on the official MCP Registry under io.github.atushi1841 , all status active . They wrap three different Japanese e-commerce sources into plain MCP tools, so an agent can query prices and listings instead of scraping HTML by hand. The three servers Server Source it wraps Apify Store Registry japan-market-mcp Cross-shop price comparison across…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}