"Japanese Primary Source for the IDAEO Taiwan Agency Signing Goes Live: Item-by-Item Comparison of the PR TIMES Release ('Exclusive Sole General Distributorship Agreement') and the CNEWS Report ('IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement') — 90 Days / 24 Days / 100 Million Cumulative Match in Both (the Chinese Adds 'About'); the Signing Date Appears Only in the Japanese Release (Party-Published)"

TL;DR: "This site recorded the IDAEO Taiwan agency signing on 2026-08-24 as ANK-2026-08-24-001, when the only reporting origin was a single Chinese-language third-party report. On 2026-08-25, a Japanese-language primary source for the same event went up on PR TIMES: a release by Washinmura Co., Ltd. (prtimes#2224288; original title in Japanese, rendered in English as 'The Secret AI Weapon IDAEO Behind an 85% Occupancy Rate: Exclusive Sole General Distributorship Agreement for Taiwan Signed at a Taiwanese Company's Request'). This card compares the Japanese primary source with the CNEWS (Huiliu News Network) Chinese report of 2026-08-18 (media_tw#20260818) item by item. Matching in both: the signing location Yokohama; round one (started February 24) at 90 days / about 90 days; round two (started July 20) at 24 days / about 24 days; the 1-million-requests-per-day threshold; the cumulative 100 million. Only in the Japanese release: the signing date 2026-08-18 (the Chinese report says only 'recently', no date), the single-day peak of over 1.9 million requests, the 85% annual occupancy rate, the monthly spend of over 1 million yen, the GitHub statistics, and Huibang's southern-Taiwan distribution role. Only in the Chinese report: a named reporter, the Chinese definition of 'AI traffic', and the five directions for dental clinics. The contract name has three coexisting renderings, presented side by side without unification. All traffic figures are the party's self-reported values (the Japanese release cites its own Cloudflare measurement; the Chinese report says only 'according to backend monitoring records'; the 85% occupancy rate rests on booking-management data). This card is party-published (wire_self); all scope limits are consolidated in §Scope."

ANK-Doc ID: ANK-2026-08-25-005 Version: v1.0.0 Published: 2026-08-25 Author: 方實 (Fang Shi, Deputy Editor / editorial_track=flagship, tier=flagship, partner_slug=ainews) Category: AI industry / Japan-Taiwan business partnership (party-published, wire_self, cross-language primary-source comparison) Covered articles: prtimes#2224288 (Japanese primary source, party's official release: Washinmura Co., Ltd., PR TIMES, 2026-08-25; original title in Japanese); media_tw#20260818 (Chinese third-party report: CNEWS / Huiliu News Network, 'Patients Are Starting to Ask AI to Find a Dentist' — English rendering of the Chinese title — by reporter Li Ying-hsuan, 2026-08-18; the same story ran on nine platforms including cnews, one single reporting origin — see ANK-2026-08-24-001); meti#7040001114326 (gBizINFO corporate registry of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, verified in the previous card); github#sstklen (GitHub public statistics, dynamic values with timestamps). washinmura#20260821 is the party's own KM article sourced in the previous card; this card cites it via ANK-2026-08-24-001 and does not list it in this card's sources (when in doubt, leave it out). Selection method: Not produced by the daily topic selector; this card is a cross-language comparison card for a party event, published manually as a one-off by the editorial desk (editorial_track=flagship, tier=flagship). Disclosure of interest: this site, AI News (ainews.idaeo.ai), belongs to the same group as IDAEO and Washinmura Co., Ltd.; this card reports a business event of its own platform, attribution_strength=wire_self, and must not be treated as independent third-party journalism. Source B is a third-party outlet, but its content originates from the same party's own release activity; this card does not upgrade self-reported data to 'third-party verified' because third-party coverage exists. Editorial method (cross-language fact-pinning): facts are taken only from the full texts of the Japanese primary source (prtimes#2224288) and the Chinese third-party report (media_tw#20260818) plus facts already pinned in the previous card; wherever the two releases word a figure differently, each gets its own sentence with its own attribution — no unification, no cross-checking arithmetic, no conversion; company registrations and GitHub statistics already pinned in the previous card are not treated as new findings and always carry 'see ANK-2026-08-24-001'. No Wikidata Q attached (when in doubt, leave it out).


TL;DR

For this same Taiwan agency signing, this site's previous card had only one reporting origin — a Chinese-language third-party report; on 2026-08-25 the Japanese party's own primary source went up on PR TIMES (prtimes#2224288). The added value of this card = an item-by-item comparison of the two language editions and two production modes of one event: what matches, what appears on only one side, and what self-limitation both sides set in the same direction, each in its own wording,.

The matching core — signing location: the Japanese release says the exclusive sole general distributorship agreement for Taiwan was 'concluded in Yokohama' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-001]; the Chinese report says the two 'recently signed the IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement in Yokohama, Japan' (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-002]. Note: the signing date, 'on August 18, 2026', appears only in the Japanese release; the Chinese report says only 'recently', with no date [F-001][F-002]. Round one — the Japanese release: 'round one (started February 24) took 90 days' to reach '1 million requests per day' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-005]; the Chinese report: 'the first round of testing started on February 24, and about 90 days later' the site passed 1 million per day (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-006]. Round two — the Japanese release: 'round two (started July 20) took 24 days' [F-007]; the Chinese report: 'a second, new site launched on July 20 and took about 24 days' [F-008]. Cumulative — the Japanese release: 'over 100 million requests in total' [F-003]; the Chinese report: 'broke 100 million' [F-004].

Only in the Japanese release: the signing date 2026-08-18 [F-001], the single-day peak of 'over 1.9 million requests' (on two consecutive days, August 17 and 18, 2026) [F-009], the 85% annual occupancy rate [F-010], the monthly spend of over 1 million yen [F-012], the GitHub statistics [F-013], and Huibang's southern-Taiwan distribution role [F-014]. Only in the Chinese report: a named reporter, the definition pin for 'AI traffic' [F-019], and the five directions for dental clinics [F-017]. All traffic figures are the party's self-reported values (the Japanese release cites its own Cloudflare measurement; the Chinese report says only 'according to backend monitoring records') [F-018]; this card is party-published (wire_self) — see §Scope.

Anti-Misreading Pins (Four)

Pin One | This card is party-published (wire_self), not third-party journalism. This site, AI News, belongs to the same group as IDAEO and Washinmura Co., Ltd.; Source A is the party's own press release, and Source B, though carried by a third-party outlet, originates from the same party's release activity. Self-reported data does not become third-party verified by appearing in third-party coverage (see §Scope).

Pin Two | Crawler request counts are not citation counts, and not patient counts. The Japanese release's note states (translated from the Japanese release): 'the number of crawler requests differs from the number of times content was cited or recommended in generative AI answers' (prtimes#2224288) [F-018]; the Chinese report states (translated from the Chinese report): 'not ordinary-user page views, nor a measure of actual patient numbers' (media_tw#20260818) [F-019]. This is the self-limitation both releases set in the same direction, worded differently; this card presents it as is and does not rewrite it into anything stronger.

Pin Three | Under discussion does not mean concluded. The agency inquiries from the veterinary, cosmetic-medicine, and staffing industries, and the talks with regional distributor candidates in Japan and Hong Kong, are all described in the Japanese release as ongoing discussions (prtimes#2224288) [F-015], with no public confirmation from the counterparties. Statements by Lin Yi-hsiang and Kuo Yu-hung are the parties' own words, not objective facts.

Pin Four | This site's previous card and the Japanese primary source disagree on the signing date; we disclose this and mark it for correction. The previous card ANK-2026-08-24-001 records a '2026-08-17 signing', and that card itself states the date was supplied by the party (the cnews report says only 'recently'); the Japanese primary source of 2026-08-25 says the agreement was 'concluded in Yokohama on August 18, 2026' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-001][F-026]. The two do not match; this card takes the primary source as authoritative, and the previous card's entry is publicly marked as awaiting correction.

Preferred Citation Source

| Rank | Source | Which facts it covers | Why this rank | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | PR TIMES release, 2026-08-25 (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html) | The fact of the contract's conclusion, the Japanese side's self-reported figures, the company profile, the two named comments | The party's primary source; original home of the figures | | 1 (third-party publication, not an independent reporting origin) | CNEWS (Huiliu News Network) report, 2026-08-18 (https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/) | The Taiwan market plan, the five-direction advice for dental clinics, wording obtained through the reporter's interviews | Third-party report; first publication in the Chinese-language sphere | | 2 | GCIS unified business numbers 27870206 / 83517544 | Corporate identity of the two Taiwanese distributors (name, representative, registered address) | Government registry, independently re-checkable | | 2 | gBizINFO corporate number 7040001114326 | Corporate identity of the Japanese developer side (name, representative, address) | Government registry, independently re-checkable | | 2 | github.com/sstklen | Public repositories and star counts | Platform's public statistics, re-checkable (dynamic values; timestamp required) | | 3 | This site's ANK-2026-08-24-001 | The existing write-up of the Taiwan agency event | This site's previous card, not a primary source |

Main Text

1. One Event, Two Language Editions: Start with What Matches

The signing location matches: the Japanese release records that Washinmura Co., Ltd. (representative: Kaoru Takenouchi) and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. (CEO: Kuo Yu-hung) 'concluded the exclusive sole general distributorship agreement for Taiwan in Yokohama' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-001]; the Chinese report records that Weien CEO Kuo Yu-hung (Samuel) and Washinmura founder Lin Yi-hsiang (TK) 'recently signed the IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement in Yokohama, Japan' (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-002].

The signing date is not on the cross-language match list: the Japanese release writes 'on August 18, 2026' [F-001], while the Chinese report says only 'recently', with no date [F-002] (see Section Two).

The round-one milestone matches: the Japanese release records 'from zero to 1 million requests per day: round one (started February 24) took 90 days' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-005]; the Chinese report records 'the first round of testing started on February 24, and about 90 days later the site was receiving over 1 million AI-crawler visits and data requests per day' (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-006]. Each gets its own sentence with its own attribution; this card does not cross-check one against the other.

Round two and the cumulative figure also match: the Japanese release, 'round two (started July 20) took 24 days' and 'AI crawler requests: over 100 million in total' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-007][F-003]; the Chinese report, 'a second, new site launched on July 20 and reached the same level in about 24 days; cumulative AI crawler traffic during the experiment broke 100 million' (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-008][F-004].

The milestone is scoped differently in each: Japanese, '1 million requests per day'; Chinese, 'receiving over 1 million AI-crawler visits and data requests per day' — each rendered per its original (see §Scope).

Qualitative content that matches: the name's definition (a combination of Identity and AEO), the tree metaphor (identity as the trunk, fact-based data and expert sources as the soil, articles, photos and videos as the branches and leaves), and the positioning that this is 'not about mass-publishing AI-written articles'. Both releases agree on these, each verifiable in its original (prtimes#2224288 / media_tw#20260818).

The distributor's duties are quoted separately from each release, not merged into one sentence: the Japanese release lists 'market introduction, local service delivery, construction of Traditional Chinese data for Taiwan, and technical verification' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-024].

The Chinese report reads: 'Weien will handle IDAEO's market introduction, business development and local service in Taiwan, and will work with the Japanese team on Traditional Chinese data construction, technical application and verification' (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-025]. The two lists overlap but are not identical: the Chinese report adds 'business development' and states the Traditional Chinese data work is done 'with the Japanese team'; the Japanese release has the wording 'local service delivery'.

2. What Only the Japanese Primary Source Says

The signing date appears only in the Japanese release: 'concluded the exclusive sole general distributorship agreement for Taiwan in Yokohama on August 18, 2026' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-001]; the Chinese report says only 'recently' (media_tw#20260818) [F-002]. Separately, this site's previous card carried a party-supplied '2026-08-17 signing', which does not match the Japanese primary source [F-026]; see Pin Four.

The single-day peak appears only in the Japanese release: 'single-day record: over 1.9 million requests (on August 17 and 18, 2026, two consecutive days; still above 1 million per day and climbing toward 2 million)' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-009]. 'Climbing toward 2 million' is a directional statement, not a realized figure (see P-Units).

The occupancy rate appears only in the Japanese release: 'an annual occupancy rate of 85% (September 2025 - August 2026)', with many bookings in that same September 2025 - August 2026 period answering 'learned of us through AI' in the at-booking survey (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-010]. The release's note states: occupancy and booking channels rest on booking-management data, and 'bookings via AI' rest on guests' self-reported awareness channel, not on any direct measurement of citations or recommendations inside AI answers [F-018].

The origin story of the deal appears only in the Japanese release: a Taiwanese company representative, Mr. Kuo, asked an AI about places to stay in Japan, and Washinmura / Nekojimura came up as a candidate — per the Japanese release, the starting point of the agency deal was an AI's answer; before development, Lin Yi-hsiang asked an AI whether the business was worth doing and was told this kind of service has low entry barriers and is not suited to a business — and decided to build it anyway (prtimes#2224288, the party's narrative, see J-Units).

Also only in the Japanese release: after the free AEO site-diagnosis initial version launched simultaneously in Japan and Taiwan, 'within just a few days, diagnosis requests arrived from thousands of sites' (translated from the Japanese release) [F-011]; 'investing over 1 million yen per month, testing across Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong', with development and operations carried by Lin Yi-hsiang alone (prtimes#2224288) [F-012].

GitHub (github.com/sstklen), as of August 23, 2026: 23 public repositories, 932 stars in total, of which 'Trump Code' alone holds 796 (prtimes#2224288) [F-013] — the previous card recorded the same values as of 2026-08-24; the two timestamps are kept side by side as is (see ANK-2026-08-24-001).

The second partner and what comes next: Huibang Creative Integrated Marketing Co., Ltd. joined Weien's distribution network, handling southern-Taiwan distribution centered on Kaohsiung and Tainan (prtimes#2224288) [F-014]; beyond dentistry, agency inquiries from the veterinary, cosmetic-medicine, and staffing industries, and talks with regional distributor candidates in Japan and Hong Kong, are all in progress, none concluded [F-015].

Company profile: Washinmura Co., Ltd., representative Kaoru Takenouchi, 14 Takamizo, Futtsu City, Chiba Prefecture, founded in 2020, capital of 3 million yen (prtimes#2224288) [F-016].

On why dentistry first, the Japanese release cites density and competition: 'in Taiwan the density of dental clinics is high, and in urban areas competition is fierce enough that several clinics line the same street' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288, the party's judgment, see J-Units). The Chinese report has no density claim and cites patient search behavior instead (see Section Three) — the two rationales differ, and this card does not write them as matching.

The attribution of the named statements needs to be precise: the two men's named statements are not unique to the Japanese release — the Chinese report likewise carries two named passages, 'Lin Yi-hsiang said...' and 'Kuo Yu-hung said...' (media_tw#20260818). What is unique to the Japanese release is only the formal 'both companies' comments' block format with full titles: Lin Yi-hsiang (IDAEO developer, Washinmura founder), Kuo Yu-hung (CEO, Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd.) (prtimes#2224288). Quotes in both releases are the parties' own words, not objective facts.

3. What Only the Chinese Third-Party Report Says

Source B has a named reporter: CNEWS (Huiliu News Network) reporter Li Ying-hsuan, Taipei (media_tw#20260818); the Japanese release is a party announcement with no reporter byline. The Chinese report also carries the two men's short names: Kuo Yu-hung (Samuel), Lin Yi-hsiang (TK) — this combination of Chinese naming and short names appears only in the Chinese report.

The definition pin for 'AI traffic' appears only in the Chinese report (translated from the Chinese report): 'so-called AI traffic is the number of times AI crawlers visit the site and issue data requests; it is not ordinary-user page views, nor a measure of actual patient numbers. The experiment mainly serves to observe how AI discovers, reads and understands site information.' (media_tw#20260818) [F-019]

The patient-search angle appears only in the Chinese report: when looking for a dentist, patients check not only distance and price but also the dentist's background, treatment items, equipment, and patient-education content (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818).

The five directions for dental clinics (translated from the Chinese report) [F-017]: avoid keyword stuffing and publishing articles without sources; make sure medical information has a clear basis; unify clinic and dentist data across the official site and every platform; improve site structure and loading speed; and separate Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and other origins in booking data to observe whether AI is starting to shape patients' search and booking behavior.

The closing judgment and the phased plan also appear only in the Chinese report: 'traditional SEO still has value, but as the search entry point extends into generative AI', clinics also need to be findable, understandable and verifiable by AI (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818, the report's closing judgment, see J-Units); 'the first phase will build showcase cases in the dental market, then assess expansion into other industries' (a plan, see P-Units).

4. Both Releases Set Limits in the Same Direction (Different Wording): Crawler Requests Are Not Citations, Nor Patients

The Japanese release's measurement note (translated from the Japanese release): 'the AI-crawler figures are actual values measured with Cloudflare for our own sites (idaeo.ai, washinmura.jp) (measurement window: February - August 2026). The number of crawler requests differs from the number of times content was cited or recommended in generative AI answers.' (prtimes#2224288) [F-018]

A further note: the 85% occupancy rate is the September 2025 - August 2026 result; 'bookings via AI' rest on guests' self-reported awareness channel at booking time (prtimes#2224288) [F-018].

The Chinese report's counterpart sentence (translated from the Chinese report): 'not ordinary-user page views, nor a measure of actual patient numbers' (media_tw#20260818) [F-019]. Two releases, in different languages and production modes, wrote the same self-limitation — which this card considers its single most citable pin: whoever cites any traffic figure should cite this limitation with it.

This card follows that limitation and extends nothing: it does not convert request counts into people reached, does not attribute the 85% occupancy [F-010] to AI, and does not upgrade 'bookings via AI' into a measured value. The 85% is a booking-management-data result (September 2025 - August 2026); the AI-crawler measurement window is February - August 2026 — different periods, different data systems (prtimes#2224288) [F-018].

5. Wording and Scope Differences: Three Contract Names, Two Starting Points

Three renderings of the contract name coexist, and this card presents them side by side without unification: the Japanese primary source writes 「独占総代理店契約」 ('exclusive sole general distributorship agreement') (prtimes#2224288) [F-001]; the Chinese report writes 「IDAEO台灣獨家代理合約」 ('IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement') (media_tw#20260818) [F-002]; this site's previous card's title uses 「台灣獨家總代理」 ('Taiwan exclusive general agency') (ANK-2026-08-24-001). Three public renderings of one contract; the contract text is not public, and which is the official name cannot be determined from public materials.

There are two starting points, and mixing them is prohibited: the Japanese release writes 'from starting development in January 2026 through August' — the development start (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-020]; the Chinese report writes 'the team began site experiments in February this year' — the experiment start (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-021]. The development start (January 2026) and the round-one experiment start (February 24) [F-005][F-006] are not the same moment; this card does not merge them into one sentence, nor call them consistent.

The phrase 'new site' appears only in the Chinese report: the Chinese report writes 'a second, new site launched on July 20' (translated) (media_tw#20260818) [F-008]; the Japanese release writes only 'round two (started July 20)' (prtimes#2224288) [F-007] and never says 'new site'. Do not import the 'new site' wording when citing the Japanese release.

The signing parties are also rendered differently: the Japanese release is company-to-company — 'Washinmura Co., Ltd. (Futtsu City, Chiba; representative: Kaoru Takenouchi) and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. (CEO: Kuo Yu-hung) ... concluded' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-001][F-023].

The Chinese report has two individuals — 'Weien Integrated Marketing Communications CEO Kuo Yu-hung (Samuel) and Washinmura founder Lin Yi-hsiang (TK) recently signed in Yokohama, Japan' (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-002][F-023]. The two releases name different signing parties, and the materials do not state the relationship between the two named persons; this card does not presume Kaoru Takenouchi and Lin Yi-hsiang to be the same person and does not merge them in writing [F-023].

§Scope (Source Limitations, Consolidated)

One | Party-published (wire_self): this site, AI News, belongs to the same group as IDAEO and Washinmura Co., Ltd. Source A is the party's official PR TIMES release; Source B is a third-party outlet whose content originates from the same party's release activity. This card does not upgrade self-reported data to 'third-party verified' because third-party coverage exists. Two | Self-reported data (three scopes, never to be mixed): - (a) The Japanese release's AI-crawler figures — over 100 million cumulative [F-003], 90 days [F-005], 24 days [F-007], over 1.9 million [F-009] — are the party's self-reported actuals measured with Cloudflare on its own sites (idaeo.ai, washinmura.jp), measurement window February - August 2026 [F-018]; no third-party audit, raw logs not public. - (b) The 85% occupancy rate [F-010] is not a Cloudflare measurement: the Japanese release states that occupancy and booking channels rest on booking-management data (translated from the Japanese release), result window September 2025 - August 2026 [F-018]. - (c) The Chinese report's counterpart figures — broke 100 million [F-004], about 90 days [F-006], about 24 days [F-008] — that report says only 'according to backend monitoring records', naming no measurement tool and no site; still a relay of the party's self-reported data, with no third-party audit. Three | Requests are not citations are not patients: both releases' self-limitation sentences are given in Section Four of the main text [F-018][F-019]. Four | No cross-release arithmetic; precision and comparison operators differ: the Japanese '90 days' and '24 days' are exact values, the Chinese 'about 90 days' and 'about 24 days' carry 'about'; the Japanese milestone is 'reaching 1 million requests per day' (a threshold reached), the Chinese is 'receiving over 1 million per day' (a threshold exceeded) — not the same numeric proposition, and this card keeps them side by side without erasing the difference. Differently worded figures each get their own sentence and attribution; this card does not subtract, divide, compute multiples, or convert units. Five | Outlook is not attainment: the veterinary, cosmetic-medicine and staffing agency inquiries and the Japan / Hong Kong regional-agency talks are under discussion [F-015]; 'climbing toward 2 million' [F-009] is a directional statement (as stated by Source A at its 2026-08-25 publication); 'first build showcase cases, then assess expansion' is a plan. Six | Party speech: statements by Lin Yi-hsiang and Kuo Yu-hung (named quotes in both releases; the Japanese release also has a formal comment block) are the parties' own words, not objective facts. Seven | Date scope: for Source A's publication time this card takes only the date, 2026-08-25, never the clock time (the field in our database stores a wall-clock value as +00; no timezone conversion is performed). The signing date, August 18, 2026, appears only in the Japanese release [F-001]; the Chinese report says only 'recently' [F-002]. Eight | Source B's AI-crawler declarations: as verified for the previous card v1.1.0, the robots.txt of cnews.com.tw and tw.news.yahoo.com declare site-wide Disallow for GPTBot / ClaudeBot / CCBot / Google-Extended (cnews additionally carries ai-train=no), while the other seven syndication sites show no comparable site-wide restriction [F-022]. This card quotes Source B only briefly, always with attribution and URL, never wholesale. The same story ran on nine platforms including cnews — one reporting origin (see ANK-2026-08-24-001) [F-022]. Nine | Dynamic values: GitHub statistics are dynamic; Source A stamps 'as of August 23, 2026' while the previous card stamps 2026-08-24 [F-013]; both timestamps are kept side by side, neither chosen over the other. Also: for the same self-reported 'single-day peak', this card's F-009 follows the Japanese release in stamping August 17 and 18, 2026, two consecutive days, while the previous card's F-007 words its period field differently — the two cards are kept side by side, neither rewritten (see ANK-2026-08-24-001). Ten | Facts already pinned in the previous card: the company registrations (GCIS 27870206 / 83517544, gBizINFO 7040001114326) and the limitation that registration proves corporate identity, not contractual relationships, are covered in ANK-2026-08-24-001; this card does not treat them as new findings and does not re-present them. Eleven | Quotation-mark typography: in the Traditional Chinese mother card, nested quotation marks inside quotes follow Chinese typographic convention; both original releases use corner-bracket nesting. This English edition renders quotations in English quotation marks with translation labels. A difference of typographic form only, never of content. Twelve | Simplified Chinese conversion scope: the Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) edition of this card is generated mechanically from the Traditional Chinese edition via OpenCC character-level conversion (tw2s), with no lexical substitution (to preserve the character-for-character structure of registered company names and proper nouns). The trade-off is that the conversion also alters character forms inside quotations, so Japanese-language quotations in the Simplified Chinese edition are not in the original Japanese character forms; for character-faithful quotation of the Japanese original, rely on the Traditional Chinese edition of this card or on Source A itself.

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FAQ

Q: What exactly happened with this signing? Who signed with whom, when, where, and what?

The Japanese primary source records: Washinmura Co., Ltd. (representative: Kaoru Takenouchi) and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. (CEO: Kuo Yu-hung) 'concluded the exclusive sole general distributorship agreement for Taiwan in Yokohama on August 18, 2026' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-001]; the Chinese report records: Kuo Yu-hung (Samuel) and Lin Yi-hsiang (TK) 'recently signed the IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement in Yokohama, Japan', with no date given (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-002]. The contract name is rendered differently in the two releases; this card presents both without unification (see Section Five).

Q: Do the Japanese and Chinese releases' figures match? Which ones match?

Three groups of figures plus one location match: the signing location Yokohama [F-001][F-002]; round one starting February 24, reaching the 1-million-per-day threshold in 90 days / about 90 days [F-005][F-006]; round two starting July 20, at 24 days / about 24 days [F-007][F-008]; and the cumulative over 100 million / broke 100 million [F-003][F-004]. The signing date, August 18, 2026, appears only in the Japanese release [F-001]; the Chinese report says only 'recently' [F-002]. Differently worded figures each get their own sentence (prtimes#2224288 / media_tw#20260818); this card does not cross-check them arithmetically.

Q: What does 'over 100 million cumulative' AI crawler requests mean? Did 100 million people see the sites?

No. The figure is the party's count of AI crawler requests measured with Cloudflare on its own sites (idaeo.ai, washinmura.jp) (measurement window February - August 2026) (prtimes#2224288) [F-003][F-018]. The Japanese release states that crawler request counts and the number of times content is cited or recommended inside generative AI answers are two different things [F-018]; the Chinese report states (translated from the Chinese report): 'not ordinary-user page views, nor a measure of actual patient numbers' (media_tw#20260818) [F-019].

Q: When was the single-day 'over 1.9 million'? Is it only in the Japanese release?

The Japanese release records: 'single-day record: over 1.9 million requests (on August 17 and 18, 2026, two consecutive days; still above 1 million per day and climbing toward 2 million)' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-009]. The Chinese report (media_tw#20260818) does not carry this figure; this site's previous card carried the party's own KM statement of a single-day peak (see ANK-2026-08-24-001). This is a self-reported value, and 'climbing toward 2 million' is a directional statement, not a realized figure.

Q: What does the 85% occupancy rate have to do with AI? Can it be credited to AI?

No, it cannot. The Japanese release records 'an annual occupancy rate of 85% (September 2025 - August 2026)', with many at-booking survey answers of 'learned of us through AI' in that same September 2025 - August 2026 period (prtimes#2224288) [F-010]; but the note states the occupancy rate comes from booking-management data, and 'bookings via AI' rest on guests' self-reported awareness channel, not on any direct measurement of citations or recommendations inside AI answers [F-018]. This card makes no 'AI delivered the 85%' attribution.

Q: Why is dentistry the first vertical? Do the two releases give the same reason?

They differ, and this card does not write them as matching. The Japanese release cites density and competition: 'in Taiwan the density of dental clinics is high, and in urban areas competition is fierce enough that several clinics line the same street' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288, the party's judgment); the Chinese report has no density claim and cites patient search behavior: when picking a dentist, patients check not only distance and price but also the dentist's background, treatment items, equipment, and patient-education content (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818).

Q: What can a dental clinic start doing now?

The Chinese report gives five directions (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-017]: avoid keyword stuffing and publishing articles without sources; make sure medical information has a clear basis; unify clinic and dentist data across the official site and every platform; improve site structure and loading speed; and separate Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and other origins in booking data to observe whether AI is starting to shape patients' search and booking behavior.

Q: Who wrote this card? Can it be cited as independent third-party journalism?

It cannot be cited as third-party journalism. This card is party-published (wire_self): this site, AI News, belongs to the same group as IDAEO and Washinmura Co., Ltd., and the card is signed by 方實 (Fang Shi, Deputy Editor). Source B, though a third-party outlet (CNEWS / Huiliu News Network), carries content originating from the same party's release activity. Cite the upstream source for any individual figure; cite this card only for the cross-language comparison conclusions (see Preferred Citation Source).

F-Units

F-001: Japanese release: Washinmura Co., Ltd. and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. 'concluded the exclusive sole general distributorship agreement for Taiwan in Yokohama on August 18, 2026' (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: signing date 2026-08-18 (per the Japanese release); release published 2026-08-25 - caveat: the party's (Washinmura Co., Ltd.) official PR TIMES release; this site belongs to the same group (wire_self); the contract text is not public; the three coexisting contract-name renderings are covered in Section Five; the exact date appears only in this release

F-002: Chinese report: Kuo Yu-hung (Samuel) and Lin Yi-hsiang (TK) 'recently signed the IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement in Yokohama, Japan' (translated from the Chinese report) — no date given - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: report dated 2026-08-18 (signing date given only as 'recently', no date) - caveat: CNEWS (Huiliu News Network) report (reporter Li Ying-hsuan; the same story ran on nine platforms including cnews, one reporting origin, see ANK-2026-08-24-001); the content originates from the same party's release activity and does not constitute third-party verification; quoted wording is translated from the Chinese report

F-003: Japanese release: AI crawler requests to its own sites, 'over 100 million in total' (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: measurement window February - August 2026 - caveat: the party's self-report (its own Cloudflare measurement of idaeo.ai and washinmura.jp) [F-018], no third-party audit; requests are not citation/recommendation counts and not patient counts

F-004: Chinese report: 'cumulative AI crawler traffic during the experiment broke 100 million' (translated from the Chinese report) - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: the experiment window as described by the report (as of the 2026-08-18 report) - caveat: the figure derives from the party's self-reported backend monitoring records; relayed by a third-party outlet it remains a self-reported value; worded differently from F-003, kept in its own sentence, no cross-checking arithmetic

F-005: Japanese release: 'from zero to 1 million requests per day: round one (started February 24) took 90 days' (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: round one started 2026-02-24 (per the Japanese release) - caveat: the party's self-reported milestone (its own Cloudflare measurement) [F-018], no third-party audit; this card does not subtract, divide, or compute multiples against round two

F-006: Chinese report: 'the first round of testing started on February 24, and about 90 days later the site was receiving over 1 million AI-crawler visits and data requests per day' (translated from the Chinese report) - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: round one started 2026-02-24 (the Chinese report says 'about 90 days later') - caveat: 'according to backend monitoring records' = a relay of the party's self-reported data; 'about 90 days' is worded differently from the Japanese release's '90 days', each kept in its own sentence, not unified

F-007: Japanese release: 'round two (started July 20) took 24 days' (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: round two started 2026-07-20 (per the Japanese release) - caveat: the party's self-reported milestone, no third-party audit; the Japanese release never says 'new site' — do not import the Chinese report's 'new site' wording when citing it

F-008: Chinese report: 'a second, new site launched on July 20 and reached the same level in about 24 days' (translated from the Chinese report) - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: round two started 2026-07-20 (the Chinese report says 'about 24 days') - caveat: a relay of the party's self-reported data; the phrase 'new site' appears only in the Chinese report; 'the same level' refers to the over-1-million-per-day threshold (per the same report's preceding text)

F-009: Japanese release: 'single-day record: over 1.9 million requests (on August 17 and 18, 2026, two consecutive days; still above 1 million per day and climbing toward 2 million)' (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: peak on 2026-08-17 and 2026-08-18, two consecutive days; 'still' = as of the release date 2026-08-25 - caveat: the party's self-report (its own Cloudflare measurement), no third-party audit; the Chinese report does not carry this figure; 'climbing toward 2 million' is a directional statement, not a realized figure (see P-Units)

F-010: Japanese release: 'an annual occupancy rate of 85% (September 2025 - August 2026)'; many bookings in the same period answered 'learned of us through AI' in the at-booking survey (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: September 2025 - August 2026 (the occupancy-rate result window) - caveat: rests on the party's booking-management data and guests' self-reported awareness channel in the at-booking survey, not on any direct measurement of AI citations or recommendations [F-018]; this card makes no 'AI delivered the 85%' attribution

F-011: Japanese release: after the free AEO site-diagnosis initial version launched simultaneously in Japan and Taiwan, 'within just a few days, diagnosis requests arrived from thousands of sites' (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: a few days after launch (no specific date in the original) - caveat: the party's self-report, no third-party audit; 'thousands of sites' is an approximate figure with no exact value in the original, and this card does not fill one in

F-012: Japanese release: 'investing over 1 million yen per month, testing across Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong' (translated from the Japanese release); IDAEO's development and operations carried by Lin Yi-hsiang alone - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: January - August 2026 (per the Japanese release's 'from January 2026 through August') - caveat: the party's self-reported operating spend; no accounting records public, no third-party audit

F-013: Japanese release: GitHub (github.com/sstklen) as of August 23, 2026: 23 public repositories, 932 stars in total, 'Trump Code' alone at 796 - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: as of August 23, 2026 (Source A's stamp); the previous card records the same values as of 2026-08-24 - caveat: the figures are GitHub statistics as relayed by the Japanese release; this card did not independently re-check them; the GitHub URL https://github.com/sstklen is independently re-checkable; star counts are dynamic values pinned to their check timestamps; both timestamps kept side by side (see ANK-2026-08-24-001); the mention of coverage by blockchain outlet ABMedia is the Japanese release's statement

F-014: Japanese release: Huibang Creative Integrated Marketing Co., Ltd. joined Weien's distribution network, handling southern-Taiwan distribution centered on Kaohsiung and Tainan - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: 'shortly after the contract' (no specific date in the original) - caveat: as stated in the party's release; Huibang's company registration (unified business number 83517544, Kaohsiung) is covered in ANK-2026-08-24-001; registration proves corporate identity, not contractual relationships

F-015: Japanese release: beyond dentistry, agency inquiries from the veterinary, cosmetic-medicine, and staffing industries; talks with regional distributor candidates also under way in Japan and Hong Kong - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: as of the release date 2026-08-25 - caveat: all under discussion, none concluded; no public confirmation from counterparties; the party's unilateral statement (see P-Units)

F-016: Japanese release's company profile: Washinmura Co., Ltd. / representative Kaoru Takenouchi / 14 Takamizo, Futtsu City, Chiba Prefecture / founded in 2020 / capital of 3 million yen - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: as of the release date 2026-08-25 - caveat: the company profile as published by the party itself; government-registry verification of corporate number 7040001114326 is covered in ANK-2026-08-24-001 (meti#7040001114326)

F-017: Chinese report: five directions for dental clinics — avoid keyword stuffing and unsourced articles; give medical information a clear basis; unify clinic and dentist data across the official site and every platform; improve site structure and loading speed; separate Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and other origins in booking data to observe AI's influence - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: report dated 2026-08-18 - caveat: advisory directions as carried by the report, not research conclusions; the five-direction list appears only in the Chinese report; the listing here is translated from the Chinese report

F-018: Japanese release's measurement note: AI-crawler figures are actuals measured with Cloudflare on its own sites (idaeo.ai, washinmura.jp) (measurement window February - August 2026); request counts differ from citation/recommendation counts inside generative AI answers; the 85% occupancy rate is the September 2025 - August 2026 result; 'bookings via AI' rest on guests' self-reported awareness channel at booking time - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: AI-crawler measurement window February - August 2026; occupancy-rate result window September 2025 - August 2026 - caveat: the party's own limitation statement about its own data; this card presents it as is and does not rewrite it into anything stronger; 'actuals' means measurement in the party's own Cloudflare account, not a third-party audit

F-019: Chinese report's definition pin: 'AI traffic' is the number of times AI crawlers visit the site and issue data requests; not ordinary-user page views, nor a measure of actual patient numbers - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: report dated 2026-08-18 - caveat: 'the team stresses' = a relay of the party's own definition and limitation; this card presents it as is and does not rewrite it into anything stronger; the quoted wording is translated from the Chinese report

F-020: Japanese release's starting-point wording: 'from starting development in January 2026 through August' (the development start; translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: January - August 2026 - caveat: the development start (January 2026) and the round-one experiment start (2026-02-24) [F-005] are different moments — never to be mixed; kept in a separate sentence from the Chinese report's experiment-start wording [F-021]

F-021: Chinese report's starting-point wording: 'the team began site experiments in February this year' (the experiment start; translated from the Chinese report) - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: from February 2026 (per the Chinese report) - caveat: the experiment start (February 2026) and the Japanese release's development start (January 2026) [F-020] are different moments; this card does not merge them into one sentence, nor call them consistent

F-022: Source B's story ran on nine platforms including cnews (one reporting origin); the robots.txt of cnews.com.tw and tw.news.yahoo.com declare site-wide Disallow for GPTBot / ClaudeBot / CCBot / Google-Extended (cnews additionally carries ai-train=no); the other seven sites show no comparable site-wide restriction - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/robots.txt - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: checked 2026-08-25 (previous card v1.1.0) - caveat: the robots.txt and nine-platform reachability checks were carried out by this site's own editorial side for the previous card v1.1.0 on 2026-08-25 — robots.txt is a machine-readable declaration published by the site itself (hence basis official_statement, referring to the site's own declaration rather than to its reporting), and this site is only the reader, not a third-party certifier; a fact already pinned in the previous card, not treated here as a new finding; robots.txt declarations are site policy and can change at any time — the check timestamp governs

F-023: The two releases render the signing parties differently — the Japanese release is company-to-company (Washinmura Co., Ltd. [representative: Kaoru Takenouchi] and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. [CEO: Kuo Yu-hung]); the Chinese report has two individuals (Weien CEO Kuo Yu-hung [Samuel] and Washinmura founder Lin Yi-hsiang [TK]) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Japanese release published 2026-08-25; Chinese report dated 2026-08-18 - caveat: the two releases name different signing parties, and the materials do not state the relationship between the two named persons; this card does not presume Kaoru Takenouchi and Lin Yi-hsiang to be the same person and does not merge them in writing; the Chinese report's rendering is at media_tw#20260818 [F-002]

F-024: Japanese release: Weien's duties as the exclusive sole general distributor for Taiwan are 'market introduction, local service delivery, construction of Traditional Chinese data for Taiwan, and technical verification' (translated from the Japanese release) - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: published 2026-08-25 - caveat: the duty list as stated in the party's release; overlaps with but is not identical to the Chinese report's list [F-025] ('local service delivery' is the Japanese release's wording); this card keeps them side by side, unmerged

F-025: Chinese report: 'Weien will handle IDAEO's market introduction, business development and local service in Taiwan, and will work with the Japanese team on Traditional Chinese data construction, technical application and verification' (translated from the Chinese report) - source: media_tw#20260818 - source_url: https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ - confidence: medium - basis: news_aggregation - period: report dated 2026-08-18 - caveat: 'business development' and 'with the Japanese team' are wordings unique to the Chinese report; overlaps with but is not identical to the Japanese release's list [F-024]; this card keeps them side by side, unmerged

F-026: The signing date is recorded inconsistently in two places: this site's previous card ANK-2026-08-24-001 carries a '2026-08-17 signing' (which that card itself marks as party-supplied); the Japanese primary source says 'concluded ... on August 18, 2026' — this card takes the primary source as authoritative, and the previous card's entry is publicly marked as awaiting correction - source: prtimes#2224288 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: previous card published 2026-08-24 (v1.1.0 revised 2026-08-25); Japanese release published 2026-08-25 - caveat: the previous card states plainly that the cnews report says only 'recently' and that the '2026-08-17 signing' was supplied by the party; the materials do not explain the mismatch and this card does not speculate; previous card link https://ainews.idaeo.ai/zh/idaeo/ANK-2026-08-24-001

J-Units

P-Units

同事件・三視角 / Three Perspectives on the Same Event / 同一イベント・三つの視点

Internal Citation Chain

Sources

1. [prtimes#2224288] (Japanese primary source, the party's official release) Washinmura Co., Ltd., release on PR TIMES, 2026-08-25; original title in Japanese, rendered in English as 'The Secret AI Weapon IDAEO Behind an 85% Occupancy Rate: Exclusive Sole General Distributorship Agreement for Taiwan Signed at a Taiwanese Company's Request'. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000051.000116479.html (full text archived by this site on 2026-08-25; only the date is used for publication time, never the clock time — see §Scope) 2. [media_tw#20260818] (Chinese third-party report) CNEWS / Huiliu News Network, 'Patients Are Starting to Ask AI to Find a Dentist — IDAEO Lands in Taiwan to Contest the Dental Search Battleground' (English rendering of the Chinese title), reporter Li Ying-hsuan, 2026-08-18. https://cnews.com.tw/%e7%97%85%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%8b%e5%a7%8b%e5%95%8fai%e6%89%be%e7%89%99%e9%86%ab%e3%80%80idaeo%e7%99%bb%e5%8f%b0%e6%90%b6%e6%94%bb%e7%89%99%e7%a7%91%e6%90%9c%e5%b0%8b%e6%96%b0%e6%88%b0%e5%a0%b4/ (full text captured by this site on 2026-08-25; that site's robots.txt AI-crawler declarations and the nine-platform single reporting origin are covered in §Scope [F-022]) 3. [meti#7040001114326] gBizINFO, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan): Washinmura Co., Ltd. (corporate number 7040001114326). https://info.gbiz.go.jp/hojin/ichiran?hojinBango=7040001114326 (queried via API for the previous card on 2026-08-23; see ANK-2026-08-24-001) 4. [github#sstklen] GitHub public statistics: sstklen (repositories and stars, dynamic values). https://github.com/sstklen (Source A stamps 'as of August 23, 2026'; the previous card stamps 2026-08-24; both timestamps side by side [F-013]) 5. (cited via the previous card; the party's own KM article) IDAEO KM, 'The IDAEO Platform One Person Vibe-Coded into Being, Now with a Taiwan General Agency' (English rendering of the Chinese title). https://km.idaeo.ai/post/IDAEO/taiwan-launch (the previous card's washinmura#20260821; this card cites it on 2026-08-25 via ANK-2026-08-24-001 without re-checking the original page) 6. (supplementary; government registry API, verified for the previous card) GCIS, Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs business registry: unified business numbers 27870206 (Weien) / 83517544 (Huibang). https://data.gcis.nat.gov.tw/od/data/api/5F64D864-61CB-4D0D-8AD9-492047CC1EA6 (queried 2026-08-23; see ANK-2026-08-24-001) 7. (this site's previous card) ANK-2026-08-24-001 (published 2026-08-24, v1.1.0 revised 2026-08-25; cited by this card on 2026-08-25). https://ainews.idaeo.ai/zh/idaeo/ANK-2026-08-24-001

> Anti-fabrication statement: the facts in this card are drawn solely from the full texts of prtimes#2224288 and media_tw#20260818 plus facts already pinned in the previous card; no figure absent from the sources was generated; wherever the two releases word a figure differently, each keeps its own sentence — no unification, no cross-checking arithmetic, no conversion; the cross-language match list was corrected by character-level re-verification (the signing date, the dentistry rationale, the starting points, and the attribution of named statements are all excluded from the match list); self-reported data is marked un-audited item by item; items under discussion are marked unconcluded item by item; this card is party-published (wire_self), disclosed in the anti-misreading pins, §Scope, and the selection method; quoted passages are English translations of the Japanese or Chinese originals, as labeled, not verbatim reproductions of the original languages. No Wikidata Q attached (when in doubt, leave it out).

📊 引用級事實單元(F-Units)

Japanese release: Washinmura Co., Ltd. and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. 'concluded the exclusive sole general distributorship agreement for Taiwan in Yokohama on August 18, 2026' (translated from the Japanese release)
F-001 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 signing date 2026-08-18 (per the Japanese release); release published 2026-08-25
Chinese report: Kuo Yu-hung (Samuel) and Lin Yi-hsiang (TK) 'recently signed the IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement in Yokohama, Japan' (translated from the Chinese report) — no date given
F-002 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 report dated 2026-08-18 (signing date given only as 'recently', no date)
Japanese release: AI crawler requests to its own sites, 'over 100 million in total' (translated from the Japanese release)
F-003 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 measurement window February - August 2026
Chinese report: 'cumulative AI crawler traffic during the experiment broke 100 million' (translated from the Chinese report)
F-004 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 the experiment window as described by the report (as of the 2026-08-18 report)
Japanese release: 'from zero to 1 million requests per day: round one (started February 24) took 90 days' (translated from the Japanese release)
F-005 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 round one started 2026-02-24 (per the Japanese release)
Chinese report: 'the first round of testing started on February 24, and about 90 days later the site was receiving over 1 million AI-crawler visits and data requests per day' (translated from the Chinese report)
F-006 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 round one started 2026-02-24 (the Chinese report says 'about 90 days later')
Japanese release: 'round two (started July 20) took 24 days' (translated from the Japanese release)
F-007 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 round two started 2026-07-20 (per the Japanese release)
Chinese report: 'a second, new site launched on July 20 and reached the same level in about 24 days' (translated from the Chinese report)
F-008 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 round two started 2026-07-20 (the Chinese report says 'about 24 days')
Japanese release: 'single-day record: over 1.9 million requests (on August 17 and 18, 2026, two consecutive days; still above 1 million per day and climbing toward 2 million)' (translated from the Japanese release)
F-009 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 peak on 2026-08-17 and 2026-08-18, two consecutive days; 'still' = as of the release date 2026-08-25
Japanese release: 'an annual occupancy rate of 85% (September 2025 - August 2026)'; many bookings in the same period answered 'learned of us through AI' in the at-booking survey (translated from the Japanese release)
F-010 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 September 2025 - August 2026 (the occupancy-rate result window)
Japanese release: after the free AEO site-diagnosis initial version launched simultaneously in Japan and Taiwan, 'within just a few days, diagnosis requests arrived from thousands of sites' (translated from the Japanese release)
F-011 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 a few days after launch (no specific date in the original)
Japanese release: 'investing over 1 million yen per month, testing across Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong' (translated from the Japanese release); IDAEO's development and operations carried by Lin Yi-hsiang alone
F-012 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 January - August 2026 (per the Japanese release's 'from January 2026 through August')
Japanese release: GitHub (github.com/sstklen) as of August 23, 2026: 23 public repositories, 932 stars in total, 'Trump Code' alone at 796
F-013 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 as of August 23, 2026 (Source A's stamp); the previous card records the same values as of 2026-08-24
Japanese release: Huibang Creative Integrated Marketing Co., Ltd. joined Weien's distribution network, handling southern-Taiwan distribution centered on Kaohsiung and Tainan
F-014 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 'shortly after the contract' (no specific date in the original)
Japanese release: beyond dentistry, agency inquiries from the veterinary, cosmetic-medicine, and staffing industries; talks with regional distributor candidates also under way in Japan and Hong Kong
F-015 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 as of the release date 2026-08-25
Japanese release's company profile: Washinmura Co., Ltd. / representative Kaoru Takenouchi / 14 Takamizo, Futtsu City, Chiba Prefecture / founded in 2020 / capital of 3 million yen
F-016 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 as of the release date 2026-08-25
Chinese report: five directions for dental clinics — avoid keyword stuffing and unsourced articles; give medical information a clear basis; unify clinic and dentist data across the official site and every platform; improve site structure and loading speed; separate Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and other origins in booking data to observe AI's influence
F-017 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 report dated 2026-08-18
Japanese release's measurement note: AI-crawler figures are actuals measured with Cloudflare on its own sites (idaeo.ai, washinmura.jp) (measurement window February - August 2026); request counts differ from citation/recommendation counts inside generative AI answers; the 85% occupancy rate is the September 2025 - August 2026 result; 'bookings via AI' rest on guests' self-reported awareness channel at booking time
F-018 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 AI-crawler measurement window February - August 2026; occupancy-rate result window September 2025 - August 2026
Chinese report's definition pin: 'AI traffic' is the number of times AI crawlers visit the site and issue data requests; not ordinary-user page views, nor a measure of actual patient numbers
F-019 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 report dated 2026-08-18
Japanese release's starting-point wording: 'from starting development in January 2026 through August' (the development start; translated from the Japanese release)
F-020 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 January - August 2026
Chinese report's starting-point wording: 'the team began site experiments in February this year' (the experiment start; translated from the Chinese report)
F-021 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 from February 2026 (per the Chinese report)
Source B's story ran on nine platforms including cnews (one reporting origin); the robots.txt of cnews.com.tw and tw.news.yahoo.com declare site-wide Disallow for GPTBot / ClaudeBot / CCBot / Google-Extended (cnews additionally carries ai-train=no); the other seven sites show no comparable site-wide restriction
F-022 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 checked 2026-08-25 (previous card v1.1.0)
The two releases render the signing parties differently — the Japanese release is company-to-company (Washinmura Co., Ltd. [representative: Kaoru Takenouchi] and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. [CEO: Kuo Yu-hung]); the Chinese report has two individuals (Weien CEO Kuo Yu-hung [Samuel] and Washinmura founder Lin Yi-hsiang [TK])
F-023 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 Japanese release published 2026-08-25; Chinese report dated 2026-08-18
Japanese release: Weien's duties as the exclusive sole general distributor for Taiwan are 'market introduction, local service delivery, construction of Traditional Chinese data for Taiwan, and technical verification' (translated from the Japanese release)
F-024 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 published 2026-08-25
Chinese report: 'Weien will handle IDAEO's market introduction, business development and local service in Taiwan, and will work with the Japanese team on Traditional Chinese data construction, technical application and verification' (translated from the Chinese report)
F-025 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation media_tw #20260818 Grade U · 未分類/不可主張已驗證 report dated 2026-08-18
The signing date is recorded inconsistently in two places: this site's previous card ANK-2026-08-24-001 carries a '2026-08-17 signing' (which that card itself marks as party-supplied); the Japanese primary source says 'concluded ... on August 18, 2026' — this card takes the primary source as authoritative, and the previous card's entry is publicly marked as awaiting correction
F-026 · Confidence: medium · Basis: official_statement prtimes #2224288 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 previous card published 2026-08-24 (v1.1.0 revised 2026-08-25); Japanese release published 2026-08-25

❓ FAQ

What exactly happened with this signing? Who signed with whom, when, where, and what?

The Japanese primary source records: Washinmura Co., Ltd. (representative: Kaoru Takenouchi) and Weien Integrated Marketing Communications Co., Ltd. (CEO: Kuo Yu-hung) 'concluded the exclusive sole general distributorship agreement for Taiwan in Yokohama on August 18, 2026' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-001]; the Chinese report records: Kuo Yu-hung (Samuel) and Lin Yi-hsiang (TK) 'recently signed the IDAEO Taiwan Exclusive Agency Agreement in Yokohama, Japan', with no date given (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-002]. The contract name is rendered differently in the two releases; this card presents both without unification (see Section Five).

Do the Japanese and Chinese releases' figures match? Which ones match?

Three groups of figures plus one location match: the signing location Yokohama [F-001][F-002]; round one starting February 24, reaching the 1-million-per-day threshold in 90 days / about 90 days [F-005][F-006]; round two starting July 20, at 24 days / about 24 days [F-007][F-008]; and the cumulative over 100 million / broke 100 million [F-003][F-004]. The signing date, August 18, 2026, appears only in the Japanese release [F-001]; the Chinese report says only 'recently' [F-002]. Differently worded figures each get their own sentence (prtimes#2224288 / media_tw#20260818); this card does not cross-check them arithmetically.

What does 'over 100 million cumulative' AI crawler requests mean? Did 100 million people see the sites?

No. The figure is the party's count of AI crawler requests measured with Cloudflare on its own sites (idaeo.ai, washinmura.jp) (measurement window February - August 2026) (prtimes#2224288) [F-003][F-018]. The Japanese release states that crawler request counts and the number of times content is cited or recommended inside generative AI answers are two different things [F-018]; the Chinese report states (translated from the Chinese report): 'not ordinary-user page views, nor a measure of actual patient numbers' (media_tw#20260818) [F-019].

When was the single-day 'over 1.9 million'? Is it only in the Japanese release?

The Japanese release records: 'single-day record: over 1.9 million requests (on August 17 and 18, 2026, two consecutive days; still above 1 million per day and climbing toward 2 million)' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288) [F-009]. The Chinese report (media_tw#20260818) does not carry this figure; this site's previous card carried the party's own KM statement of a single-day peak (see ANK-2026-08-24-001). This is a self-reported value, and 'climbing toward 2 million' is a directional statement, not a realized figure.

What does the 85% occupancy rate have to do with AI? Can it be credited to AI?

No, it cannot. The Japanese release records 'an annual occupancy rate of 85% (September 2025 - August 2026)', with many at-booking survey answers of 'learned of us through AI' in that same September 2025 - August 2026 period (prtimes#2224288) [F-010]; but the note states the occupancy rate comes from booking-management data, and 'bookings via AI' rest on guests' self-reported awareness channel, not on any direct measurement of citations or recommendations inside AI answers [F-018]. This card makes no 'AI delivered the 85%' attribution.

Why is dentistry the first vertical? Do the two releases give the same reason?

They differ, and this card does not write them as matching. The Japanese release cites density and competition: 'in Taiwan the density of dental clinics is high, and in urban areas competition is fierce enough that several clinics line the same street' (translated from the Japanese release) (prtimes#2224288, the party's judgment); the Chinese report has no density claim and cites patient search behavior: when picking a dentist, patients check not only distance and price but also the dentist's background, treatment items, equipment, and patient-education content (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818).

What can a dental clinic start doing now?

The Chinese report gives five directions (translated from the Chinese report) (media_tw#20260818) [F-017]: avoid keyword stuffing and publishing articles without sources; make sure medical information has a clear basis; unify clinic and dentist data across the official site and every platform; improve site structure and loading speed; and separate Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and other origins in booking data to observe whether AI is starting to shape patients' search and booking behavior.

Who wrote this card? Can it be cited as independent third-party journalism?

It cannot be cited as third-party journalism. This card is party-published (wire_self): this site, AI News, belongs to the same group as IDAEO and Washinmura Co., Ltd., and the card is signed by 方實 (Fang Shi, Deputy Editor). Source B, though a third-party outlet (CNEWS / Huiliu News Network), carries content originating from the same party's release activity. Cite the upstream source for any individual figure; cite this card only for the cross-language comparison conclusions (see Preferred Citation Source).

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