Police find body in search for missing Kyoto boy ⁠0%

By JIJI⁠0%

4/13/2026, 4:43:00 PM

Topics: Japan

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 43% saturation with 34 hits. Analysis detected 51 faulty-reasoning hits from 79 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Nantan, Kyoto Pref. – During a search for a missing boy, Kyoto prefectural police on Monday found a body that may be that of a child in the mountains in the city of Nantan. 
The prefectural police will conduct an autopsy to confirm the identity of the body and the cause of death. 
Yuki Adachi, 11, a student at a local public elementary school, has been missing since March 23. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.2%The Japan Times: 3.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.5%The Japan Times: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.6%The Japan Times: 4.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.6%The Japan Times: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.6%The Japan Times: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 8.2%The Japan Times: 14.4%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.7%The Japan Times: 1.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 4.4%The Japan Times: 4.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 3.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 21.5%JIJI: 5.0%The Japan Times: 11.6%Negativity Bias21.5%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 1.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.8%The Japan Times: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.6%The Japan Times: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.3%The Japan Times: 2.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.9%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 5.7%The Japan Times: 5.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.9%The Japan Times: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 4.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.4%The Japan Times: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 4.0%The Japan Times: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.3%The Japan Times: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.9%The Japan Times: 4.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 1.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 3.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 4.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.1%The Japan Times: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 43.0%JIJI: 4.7%The Japan Times: 9.0%Biased Writer Voice43.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.1%The Japan Times: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

79 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker67%attributed speech26writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageKyoto prefectural police • 34 words • 100.0% coverageKyoto prefectural police • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverage
64%flagged-word coverage
53 attributed words100% of attributed speech65% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Biased Writer Voice+64.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Kyoto prefectural police: 64.2%64.2%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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