Your deploy ships with perfect English, but Japanese browsers render broken line breaks, illegible Kanji at 14px, and a checkout that refuses Konbini payments. Japanese website development rebuilds your stack for CJK typography — Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji that scale without breaking. Your team wires LINE Official Accounts for order tracking and rich menus, not email threads Japanese buyers ignore. We implement hreflang for Google Japan and Yahoo Japan (20% of search traffic your competitors already own), add Paidy and convenience store payment rails, and restructure your layouts with the visual density and trust signals — company history, office photos, certifications — that Japanese consumers expect before they'll trust a foreign brand. Machine translation gets you filtered. Native-speaker workflow and locale-aware CMS keep both languages synchronized without your English changes orphaning Japanese pages.
Waar projecten falen
Compliance
Native CJK Typography
LINE Ecosystem Integration
Yahoo Japan & Google Japan SEO
Japanese Payment Gateways
Cultural Localization
Locale-Aware Architecture
Wat we bouwen
Rebuild typography for CJK rendering with proper font stacks and line-breaking algorithms
Integrate LINE Official Accounts with rich menus, automated responses, and order status
Add Konbini payment flows for Lawson, 7-Eleven, and FamilyMart convenience store checkout
Restructure layouts with Japanese visual hierarchy and trust signals native users expect
Optimize for Yahoo Japan SEO alongside Google Japan with dual search engine indexing
Implement bilingual CMS with native-speaker translation workflow and change flagging
Ons proces
Japan Market Discovery
Bilingual Architecture & Design
Build & Localization
Testing & Japan QA
Launch + 30 Days Support
Veelgestelde vragen
How much does a Japanese bilingual website cost?
Custom Japanese-English bilingual websites start at $8,000 for businesses needing a professional cross-market presence. Complex builds with LINE integration, Yahoo Japan SEO, Japanese payment gateways, and culturally-adapted design for both markets range from $14,000 to $20,000. Every project is fixed-fee with no hidden costs.
Do you handle Japanese translation and localization?
Yes. We provide professional Japanese translation with native-speaker review, not machine translation. Japanese localization goes beyond words – we adapt layouts for vertical text options, ensure proper Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji rendering, handle honorific levels in copy, and adjust visual hierarchy for Japanese reading patterns.
Why optimize for Yahoo Japan instead of just Google?
Yahoo Japan still commands roughly 20 percent of Japanese search market share. While Yahoo Japan uses Google's core algorithm, it has its own features like Yahoo Shopping integration, Yahoo News placement, and Yahoo Answers visibility. We optimize for both Google Japan and Yahoo Japan including proper hreflang tags, Japanese-language structured data, and local business listings on both platforms.
Can you integrate LINE messaging with our website?
Yes. LINE has over 90 million monthly active users in Japan – more than any other messaging platform. We integrate LINE Official Account for customer messaging, LINE Login for authentication, LINE Pay for payments, and LINE Share buttons. We also build LINE rich menus that link to website features and LINE Notify for order confirmations.
What Japanese payment methods should we support?
For the Japanese market, we integrate Paidy for buy-now-pay-later (extremely popular in Japan), Konbini payments (convenience store payment – used by millions who prefer cash), LINE Pay, PayPay, Rakuten Pay, and traditional credit card processing via Stripe Japan. The payment mix depends on whether you are B2C or B2B.
How do you handle Japanese typography on the web?
Japanese web typography requires specific attention to font stacking with system fonts like Hiragino Sans and Meiryo, proper line-height for CJK characters (typically 1.7-1.8), word-break rules that differ from Latin text, vertical writing mode support where appropriate, and Ruby text for furigana annotations. We test rendering across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Can you build for both Japanese and Western audiences?
Yes. We build locale-aware sites with automatic language detection via Vercel Edge middleware, hreflang tags for search engines, and culturally-adapted layouts per locale. Japanese pages can have different visual hierarchy, imagery, and content structure than English pages – not just translated text but a genuinely localized experience.
How long does a Japanese market website take to build?
A standard bilingual website takes 8 to 10 weeks including professional translation and cultural localization. Projects with LINE integration, Japanese payment gateways, and Yahoo Japan SEO take 10 to 12 weeks. We assign a dedicated project manager experienced in Japanese market localization.
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