Japan Regulatory News Digest: Claude + Slack + Sheets (n8n)

Japan Regulatory News Digest—automatically summarized by Claude and posted to Slack (n8n)

This n8n workflow automatically pulls Japan regulatory news from your RSS feeds, deduplicates it using Google Sheets, summarizes + translates new items with Anthropic Claude, and delivers a clean digest directly to Slack—optionally also creating a Gmail draft and logging to Notion.

What this workflow does

• Runs weekly on a configurable schedule so your team gets updates without manual searching.
• Reads up to three RSS feeds you configure in parallel, labeling each item by its configured source name.
• Filters by a lookback window to ignore older articles you don’t want included.
• Deduplicates against a Google Sheets distribution log so already-sent articles are excluded and never summarized twice.
• Batch summarizes and translates with Anthropic Claude when at least one new article is found, requesting a short summary and translation for each item.
• Preserves original context by assembling the digest to always include each article’s original title, URL, and publish date.
• Posts the digest to Slack and—based on configuration toggles—optionally creates a Gmail draft and/or appends an entry to Notion.
• Logs newly distributed articles back to Google Sheets with a timestamp for reliable future deduplication.

Use cases

• SaaS and ops teams monitoring Japan regulatory changes for compliance and planning.
• Automation engineers building an AI-enabled regulatory intelligence pipeline in n8n.
• Legal/compliance stakeholders who want weekly Slack digests with sources and translation.

Technical details

• n8n components include if, set, code, no op, merge, and gmail nodes.
• Integrates with Slack (posts digest), Anthropic Claude (summarization + translation), Google Sheets (dedupe log), with optional Gmail draft and Notion logging.
• Setup includes importing the workflow and its companion error-handling workflow, then pointing Settings > Error Workflow accordingly.