Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
birdculture
52 points
3 comments
August 29, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
tingletech
previous discussion in 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25023673 This 2025 discussion links to this too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779
jiggawatts
There is a still flawed but less insane “utf_ken_all.csv” published as of 2023 and there is an API with even less legacy weirdness as of March 2026.