MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
Asahi Shimbun — Modern Reference
asahi.com · News
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.
C·65
C · 65
Hard paywall on Japanese content; English edition open but smaller scope.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Language gatePrimary content Japanese-language; under-represented in English LLM corpora.
Global rank
#125 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#25 of 27
Among news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 77
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
-12 below category