About r/japan
In its own words:
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.
Community guide
r/japan (#603, about 1.8 million subscribers) — 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… A recent sample averaged 15 posts a day (~60% text, ~36% link, ~4% video). Its public rules include: No racism/hatemongering/harassment; No tourist posts allowed; No blog/vlog/product spam/crowdfunding/begging/shopping assistance posts; Post in the correct subreddits for traveling to, moving to and living in Japan; Submission titles should be relevant & informative. It is listed under “Local”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and advertising are tightly limited—read those rules before linking your own channel, shop, or site. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; rules can change. Avoid clickbait titles; say what the post actually is.
The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 869 subscribers (+0.05%). Among the 10 communities on our japan list it is number 2 by size. It sits just behind r/indiasocial (#602) and ahead of r/TalesFromRetail (#604) in our ranking.
What sets r/japan apart
Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (03:00 UTC) sees about 12.0× as many posts as the quietest (04:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/japan grew from 1,804,456 to 1,810,952 subscribers (+6.5K, +0.36%). That is about 127 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/japan this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- Japanese man thanks parents for openly discussing his 9 years of school refusalu/SkyInJapan · Nov 7 · link
- Japan tops the rankings for safest cities on earthu/InForTheSqueeze · Nov 2 · link
- Japan's popular manhole cards discontinued in some towns over abusive collectorsu/TokyoWeekender · Nov 4 · link
- Russian hacker group admits to targeting Japanese firms: "they tend to leave vulnerabilities unfixed"u/frozenpandaman · Nov 6 · link
- Putin puts 4 Japanese factories under Russian managementu/AkiraIkuru · Nov 5 · link
- Japan's long-dormant Shikoku shinkansen plan gathers momentumu/Jonnyboo234 · Nov 3 · link
- Woman loses lawsuit against ex-fiancé who called off engagement after her refusal to take his surnameu/frozenpandaman · Nov 6 · link
- Japan considers paying low-income workers ¥5,000 through benefit programu/frozenpandaman · Nov 1 · link
- Japan unlikely to raise cap for foreign workers despite labor shortagesu/TurbulentTopic39 · Nov 4 · link
- One in Eight Babies Born via IVF in Japan in 2024u/sakhaliner · Nov 5 · link
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/japan, from 2016 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe diesu/mr_stivo · Jul 8, 2022 · 13,717 points · 1,950 comments · link
- Japanese politician receives over 8,000 death threats after proposing free sanitary products in toilets.u/4R4M4N · Apr 5, 2025 · link
- FUKUSHIMA atacked earthquake! TUNAMI WARNING!! TUNAMI will arrived within few minutes! ESCAPE to high place!u/Arazine · Nov 21, 2016 · 5,391 points · 359 comments · link
- Japanese lawmaker gets suspended term for raping first-year middle school girl at a karaoke in Shinjuku: "The court deemed a suspended sentence appropriate, noting that he had already apologized"u/Dapper-Material5930 · Feb 3, 2025 · link
- This is how many documents you have to submit to become a Japanese citizen. Manga for scale.Nov 24, 2020 · image
- Japanese man who ate at same beef bowl chain for 2,000 days in a row announces he’s gotten marriedu/Jonnyboo234 · Mar 24, 2025 · link
- The world's largest firework launched over Nagasaki, Japanu/Asero831 · Jan 1, 2025 · video
- After my first trip to Japan.u/sg_xiao_boi · Mar 15, 2020 · 3,802 points · 142 comments · image
- Japan town to block Mount Fuji view due to badly behaved foreign touristsu/frozenpandaman · Apr 26, 2024 · link
- 7 years ago, a boy asked Cristiano Ronaldo, who was visiting Japan, how to get a good football. Reporters laughed at the boy's poor Portuguese, but Ronaldo told them not to laugh at him. The boy won …u/Critical_Block_311 · Feb 15, 2021 · image
What r/japan talks about
We read the titles of 108 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “japanese”, “tokyo”, “man”, “help” and “question”. Other frequent themes are culture, halloween, looking, world, asahi and shimbun. Recurring phrases include “asahi shimbun”, “shimbun breaking”, “breaking news” and “surface mail”. By format, 60% are text posts, 36% are links and 4% are videos.
Activity and best time to post
r/japan gets about 15 new posts a day. The public archive holds 187,033 posts and 1,796,443 comments in total, about 9.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (22 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (11). Posting peaks around 03:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/japan
The moderators of r/japan list 6 rules. In short:
- No racism/hatemongering/harassment
- No tourist posts allowed
- No blog/vlog/product spam/crowdfunding/begging/shopping assistance posts
- Post in the correct subreddits for traveling to, moving to and living in Japan
- Submission titles should be relevant & informative
- Don't be a troll
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/japan and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/japan have?
r/japan has 1,810,952 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #603 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,496 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/japan created?
r/japan was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 28, 2008.
Is r/japan still active?
Yes. r/japan gets about 15 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 187,033 posts and 1,796,443 comments. In a sample of 108 recent posts we counted 87 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/japan?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 03:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/japan?
The community describes itself as: “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 str…” Recent post titles often mention japanese, tokyo, man, help and question. Most posts are text posts (60%).
Is r/japan SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/japan as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/japan?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/japan accepts both text and link posts. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “No racism/hatemongering/harassment”; “No tourist posts allowed”; “No blog/vlog/product spam/crowdfunding/begging/shopping assistance posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/japan?
Communities with similar topics include r/JapanTravel (3.5M), r/JapaneseFood (1.4M), r/TravelHacks (5.8M), r/Europetravel (1.9M) and r/travel (14.5M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/japan.