Japan News

About

The Japan News tool functions as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to provide seamless access to Japanese financial and business news. It aggregates RSS feeds from prominent sources such as Yahoo!ニュース ビジネス, NHKニュース 経済, Reuters Japan, and 東洋経済オンライン. Users can leverage this tool to list available news sources, retrieve the latest headlines, search for articles by keyword, and obtain summaries of specific articles. Built with `httpx` and `asyncio`, it ensures fast and asynchronous fetching of news content, making it an efficient solution for integrating real-time Japanese news into various applications and AI agents.

Key Features

• Offers 4 MCP tools: search_news, get_headlines, get_article_summary, list_sources
• CLI for direct interaction and server configuration
• 0 GitHub stars
• Built for speed with `httpx` and `asyncio` for concurrent feed fetching
• Aggregates news from 4 major Japanese RSS sources: Yahoo!, NHK, Reuters, Toyokeizai
• Requires no API keys, utilizing publicly available RSS feeds

Use Cases

• Integrating real-time Japanese financial and business news into AI agents or LLMs.
• Monitoring and analyzing economic trends from multiple Japanese news outlets.
• Automating the retrieval and summarization of specific news articles based on keywords.