r/japanlife

126K archived posts · Jan 2010 – Sep 2026

Residents in Japan

r/japanlife

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.

Created Jan 16, 2010

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For people already living in Japan - anything relevant to living or working in Japan such as lifestyle, food, style, environment, education, technology, housing, work, visas, sport etc.

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#SUB RULES

1. Be respectful and civil.

Sexism, racism, homophobia, personal attacks, trolling, and jerkishness are not allowed. Please scale the sensitivity of your comments to the context of what you're replying to.
Don't personally attack other users -- this includes harassment in the comments, via PM, following them onto unrelated reddit threads, and pinging them
Do not use slurs / insults
A useful guide to civil behavior on Reddit is found here: https://bit.ly/2TRYsf4

2. Be useful.

If you reply to a post, please add value with your comments.

3. If you do not reside in Japan, do not post here.

Participation in this sub is limited to residents of Japan. If you do not live here, don't post or comment in this sub. If you are:

Moving to Japan and have a question - r/movingtojapan
Travelling in Japan and have a question - r/japantravel
Classroom teaching strategies in Japan - r/teachinginjapan
Want to learn Japanese - r/learnjapanese
JET prospect - r/jetprogramme

4. SEARCH BEFORE YOU POST!

If you ask a question that has been answered, especially recently, it will be removed. Search using Google first (keyword site:reddit.com/r/japanlife)

5. Disallowed Content

All posts must be relevant to residents of Japan. Disallowed content also includes: personal info, meetup requests, posts without enough content, proxy/agent requests, off-topic content, spam, self-promotion, links to blogs/vlogs/video/social media, NSFW posts without tagging, foreign politics, etc. You can link to news articles to cite your source, but your post must contain the relevant information.

6. We are not craigslist

Selling something? Job posting? etc.? Don't post it here without a modmail first.

7. Megathreads

If there is a megathread already stickied and relevant, please post your question/praise/complaint/etc there.

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