@pipeworx/jp-kanpo

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What did Japan’s official gazette (官報, Kanpo) publish on a given day? Issues and tables of contents from the National Printing Bureau’s free edition, which covers the most recent 90 days.

Tools

• jp_kanpo_issues(date?, include_contents?) — the issues of one day (the latest published day when date is omitted): type (本紙 main, 号外 extra, 特別号外 special extra, 政府調達 government procurement), issue number, page range, size and links, and each issue’s table of contents: section headings (for example 省令, 法規的告示, その他告示, 公告) with the titles of the ordinances and notifications listed and their page numbers. Every response states the window covered (from, to).

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• National Printing Bureau of Japan (国立印刷局), Kanpo (official gazette), free 90-day edition. Read live on each call (two page reads at most); nothing stored.

Behaviour worth knowing

• Tables of contents and issue metadata only. The text of notices is not served: the gazette prints notices naming private individuals (bankruptcy, missing persons, naturalisation and the like), and the publisher itself withholds those as images and removes them after 90 days. The contents of the 公告 section appear as category headings, as the publisher lists them.
• There is no keyword search tool: the publisher’s search is a paid service and the free edition has none.
• A date before the window returns found: false with empty_reason: "before_free_window"; a date inside it with no issue (government holidays) returns empty_reason: "no_issue_on_date". The response then lists available_dates.
• The publisher asks users not to crawl or load the site; this tool reads at most two pages per call, on request.
• An index or contents page whose markup has changed is refused, never read as zero issues.

Tools

• jp_kanpo_issues — List the issues of Japan’s official gazette (官報, Kanpo) published by the National Printing Bureau for a date, or the latest day if no date is given, each with its table of contents. Each issue gives i