Ownership & Funding

Last reviewed 2026-09-08.

The Tokyo is published by Nexcom Media (Nexcom Media Network). This page discloses our corporate structure, sources of funding, and any conflicts that might affect editorial decisions.

Publisher

Publication name: The Tokyo
Publisher: Nexcom Media
Parent network: Nexcom Media Network — nexcom.media
Founded: 2024
Type: Independent digital news publisher
Region served: Tokyo, Japan
Mailing address: PO Box 80123, Tokyo, 77280
Phone: +1-832-225-5050
Editorial contact: editor@nexcom.media

Funding model

The Tokyo is supported by:

Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl — fees from AI training crawlers that license our content. See crawler pricing.
Donations / supporter contributions — see /donate. All donations of $1,000 or more are disclosed publicly in this section within 30 days. Donors do not see content before publication and cannot direct coverage.
Content licensing — fees from outlets that license our articles for republication (CC BY 4.0 is free; commercial licensing is paid).

Major donors & sponsors (current)

As of 2026-09-08, The Tokyo has no donors or sponsors of $1,000 or more requiring disclosure on this page. We will update this list within 30 days of any qualifying contribution.

Affiliate links

When we link to products or services, we may receive a small commission if you click and purchase. Affiliate relationships do not affect what we choose to cover. Articles containing affiliate links are labeled "Includes affiliate links."

Editorial independence

Editorial decisions — what to cover, how to cover it, what to publish — are made by the editorial team alone. The publisher does not pre-approve articles. Advertisers, sponsors, and donors have no advance access to content and no veto.

AI training & licensing

Excerpts and structured data are CC BY 4.0 licensed. Full-article AI training requires a paid license — see crawler pricing and /ai.txt. We allow named AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, etc.) to crawl excerpts for assistant queries.