r/japanlife↗
Residents in Japan
For residents of Japan only - if you do not reside in Japan you are welcome to read, but do not post or comment or you will be removed. Anything relevant to living or working in Japan such as lifestyle, food, style, environment, education, technology, housing, work, immigration, sport etc. Rakuten Employees: Do not attempt to distribute your referral codes. We will treat it as spam. Tell Mikitani to take his forced marketing and shove it where the sun don't shine.
738k subscribers839 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~2% by known bots)704 authors / mosince 2010
r/japanlife has 738k members (+9.9% over the last 12 months). It gets about 839 posts a month from 704 people. Top topics: Japan Job Visa, Foreign Workers and Residents and Learn Japanese.
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Topics and brands on r/japanlife
Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Japan Job Visa3.2%
- Foreign Workers and Residents0.4%
- Learn Japanese0.3%
- Driving Licenses & Regulations0.3%
- Tokyo Policing Issues0.3%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Amazon
- Yahoo! JAPAN
- kakaku
- Japan Post Holdings
- The Japan Times
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