The short answer
Japan Times, 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
4 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 3.7). Over the last twelve months Japan Times sent 490 notifications, pushing on 131 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 16:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-08-11, with 6 pushes.
The daily clock
All of Japan Times's pushes from the last twelve months, on Japan's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 16:00.
Japan Timespeak 16:000.0% of Japan Times's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the timing guides.
The week
An average weekday carries 3.8 Japan Times pushes and a weekend day 3.7: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How Japan Times writes a push
| Habit | Japan Times | Japan median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 13 | 13 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 65 | 66 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 97.6% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Phrased as a question | 5.3% | 1.8% |
Aggregates over every Japan Times notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other Japan apps
Every Japan news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. Japan Times is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Nikkei Asia | 1,652 | 6.0 | 12:00 |
| 2 | Japan Times | 490 | 4 | 16:00 |
| 3 |  NHK WORLD | 205 | 1.0 | 19:00 |
Method
AO.news collects the push notifications of hundreds of news apps as they are delivered, and records each one the moment it lands. This page counts the 490 notifications Japan Times sent from 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026, stamped in Asia/Tokyo local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach us. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.