r/japan↗
Japan
This subreddit serves as a general hub to discuss most things Japanese and exchange information, **as well as to guide users to subs specializing in things such as daily life, travel or language acquisition.** Users are strongly encouraged to check the sidebar and stickied general questions thread before posting.
1.8M subscribers564 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~5% by known bots)368 authors / mosince 2008
r/japan has 1.8M members (+3.5% over the last 12 months). It gets about 564 posts a month from 368 people. Top topics: Tokyo Policing Issues, Population Trends and Issues and Coronavirus Cases Tokyo.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Tokyo Policing Issues0.7%
- Population Trends and Issues0.7%
- Coronavirus Cases Tokyo0.7%
- Foreign Workers and Residents0.7%
- Japanese Politics and Elections0.6%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Mainichi Shimbun
- The Japan Times
- 朝日新聞
- 日本経済新聞
- NHK
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