Japanese website translation, and pages Japan can find

Add one line of code to your site, or point your domain at Proxylang, and add Japanese as a target language. Every page is translated, including meta titles, meta descriptions, alt text and form labels, and each one is served at its own Japanese URL. Setup takes about a minute and there is nothing to install in your content management system.

Yahoo! Japan is served by Google’s search index, so pages that Google can crawl and rank are the same pages Yahoo! Japan can show. That makes Japan simpler than most Asian markets: you do not need a second SEO programme, only Japanese pages that are genuinely indexable. From the Start plan, Proxylang serves each language as its own URL with hreflang tags and its own sitemap entries.

It is good enough to publish and to be understood, and it is consistent, which matters more than most people expect across a large site. It is not a Japanese copywriter. The practical approach is to let everything translate, then read your five or six most important pages and correct the wording where the tone is not right. Those corrections are permanent and replace the automatic version.

Pin them in the glossary. A pinned term is carried through untouched in every language, including inside longer sentences, so a product name is never rendered as a translated phrase or a different katakana spelling on different pages. Decide once whether a name stays in Latin script or is written in katakana, then pin that form.

A path on your own domain, such as /ja-jp/pricing for your pricing page. Keeping Japanese on your existing domain means it inherits the authority the domain has already built, rather than starting from zero on a new one. Language subdomains are not used; the path prefix is the format.

Not to launch, and that is the point of doing it this way. You need one eventually if Japan becomes a real market — to check your key pages and to answer the enquiries that arrive. Until then, publishing in Japanese is how you find out whether the market is there at all.