Residential proxies in Japan: Japanese IPs by the GB

Japan is a mature market that keeps to itself: many Japanese sites show foreign visitors a reduced English version or block them, and search is split between Google and Yahoo! Japan.

What people check from Japanese IPs

Prices on Rakuten, Amazon Japan and Yahoo! Shopping, and second-hand listings on Mercari.
Google and Yahoo! Japan results, which use different ads and partly different rankings.
Price comparison on Kakaku, a common reference for electronics.

Local notes

Send Accept-Language: ja-JP and use the Tokyo time zone. Japanese pages may use Shift_JIS or EUC-JP rather than UTF-8 on older sites, so decode by the declared charset. Tokyo and Osaka cover the largest audiences; prefectures matter mostly for local services and store availability.

Connect

Add this option to the proxy username: -country-JP. The first line below gets a new IP on every request; the second keeps one IP for up to 10 minutes.

http://user-country-JP:••••••••@PROXY_HOST:8080
http://user-country-JP-session-ab12cd-time-10:••••••••@PROXY_HOST:8080

Your real username and password are in the dashboard. State, city and ISP codes for this country are listed there too. How targeting works

Price

Traffic costs from $1.75 per GB, the same as for any other country: location targeting is not charged extra. See all tariffs