# agentfeeds.jp Japan Unemployment Rate

> agentfeeds.jp Japan Unemployment Rate is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentfeeds.jp, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns Japan's monthly unemployment rate from the Statistics Bureau Labour Force Survey, broken down by total, male, or female, going back to 2000

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentfeeds.jp/v1/jp/labor/unemployment_rate
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentfeeds-jp-japan-unemployment-rate-c73fc687
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5GJU0qmasmStu1kTsiXu3

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentfeeds-jp-japan-unemployment-rate-c73fc687
```

Example prompt: Pull the Japan unemployment rate for the last 24 months broken down by male and female from the Statistics Bureau Labour Force Survey so I can compare gender trends.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official, government-sourced Japan unemployment statistics with gender breakdowns and a long history (back to 2000). It is preferable over scraping MOF or e-Stat directly because it returns structured JSON, handles x402 micropayment automatically, and stays within the same agentfeeds.jp family as other Japan macro and regulatory data endpoints.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid sex enum value returns an error — must be 'total', 'male', or 'female'
- Limit out of range (below 1 or above 120) returns a validation error
- Data not yet published for the current month may return fewer records than requested
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient or x402 handshake fails
- Network timeout if upstream e-Stat API is slow or unavailable

## How this service works

Japan's unemployment rate from the Statistics Bureau's Labour Force Survey, not seasonally adjusted, monthly since 2000, broken out by total/male/female. Same e-Stat API family as estat.search/estat.table_data. Factual published data only; not investment advice or a forecast.

## Output

Returns a time series of monthly Japan unemployment rate observations (not seasonally adjusted) from the Statistics Bureau Labour Force Survey, with fields for month, rate value, and sex category (total/male/female), covering up to 120 months back to 2000.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "sex": {
       "enum": [
        "total",
        "male",
        "female"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "default total"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "1-120, default 12 (most recent months)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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