# Edge Agents Japan Unemployment Macro Intelligence

> Edge Agents Japan Unemployment Macro Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns evidence-backed, provenance-signed analysis of Japan's unemployment data with confidence ratings, contradictions, and bounded decision support for business leaders and AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-jp-unemployment
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-japan-unemployment-macro-intelligence-58ea39b4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_q9AkQsecHoHbluXNEmxsI

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 edge-agents-japan-unemployment-macro-intelligence-58ea39b4
```

Example prompt: Pull me the latest Japan unemployment intelligence from Edge Agents — I need the evidence summary, confidence rating, and any contradictions flagged, with provenance, so I can include it in our board strategy pack.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need point-in-time, provenance-signed Japan unemployment intelligence with explicit confidence ratings and contradiction flagging — particularly for autonomous agents or business leaders who need audit-ready, evidence-backed macro data rather than raw statistical feeds. Prefer it over generic news or data APIs when you require structured decision intelligence with quality assurance and disclaimers suitable for board-level or fiduciary contexts.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received (402 response) — must pay $0.01 USDC via x402 protocol before data is returned
- Data unavailable for the reporting period — response may indicate incomplete coverage in limitations field
- Stale or pending official release — evidence assets array may be empty with limitations noted
- Network or upstream source failure — service may return an error or partial response
- Invalid or missing request parameters — malformed input returns an error

## How this service works

Latest available Japan unemployment plus a comparable annual history from the World Bank World Development Indicators API, with source, lag and revision caveats. Purpose: Give an autonomous agent a normalized, directly sourced Japan unemployment series without forcing it to understand World Bank indicator codes or response shapes. 24-hour freshness target; missing evidence is reported explicitly rather than invented.

## Output

A JSON object containing: quality status (e.g. 'strong') and confidence level (e.g. 'high'); a macro analysis summary covering Japan unemployment findings, intents (evidence, labour), and family classification; evidence assets with point-in-time sourcing policy and source citations from the live report; provenance with issuer URL and signed flag; service ID, data status, schema version (2.0), generatedAt timestamp; and a disclaimer clarifying the research is not investment advice.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "quality": {
   "status": "strong",
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  "analysis": {
   "family": "macro",
   "intents": [
    "evidence",
    "labour"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Japan Unemployment findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "JPN"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-jp-unemployment",
  "dataStatus": "complete",
  "disclaimer": "General, impersonal market research; not investment advice or a buy, sell or hold recommendation.",
  "provenance": {
   "issuer": "https://edge-agents.ai",
   "signed": true
  },
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "limitations": [
   "Coverage, source freshness and unavailable evidence are stated in every paid report."
  ],
  "schemaVersion": "2.0"
 }
}
```

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