⚡ Blogging Platforms in Japan

Blogging platforms are web-based services that allow users to create, publish, and manage blog posts, often combining content creation, hosting, and audience interaction.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our data, blogging platforms are used on 0.8% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 160K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top blogging platforms in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Livedoor Blog with an impressive share of 32.5%, followed by Hatena Blog with 24% and Movable Type with 15.3%.

Livedoor Blog 32.5%
Hatena Blog 24%
Movable Type 15.3%
WordPress.com 12.9%
FC2 9.1%
Blogger 4.4%
Tumblr 1.9%
Ninja Blog 0.2%
Substack 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Livedoor Blog ^(-4)
2. Hatena Blog ^(-4)
3. Movable Type ^(-4)
5. FC2 ^(-4)
8. Ninja Blog ^(-7)

✨ Best Blogging Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 9 blogging platforms used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Livedoor Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to create and manage blogs with customizable designs. Free	32.5%
2	Hatena Blog Kyoto, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to publish and manage personal or professional blogs with customizable domains and themes. Free1,008 JPY/month	24%
3	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	15.3%
4	WordPress.com San Francisco, California, United States A managed WordPress platform that handles hosting, performance, security, and maintenance so site owners can focus on content. $4+/month	12.9%
5	FC2 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A Japanese blog hosting service. Free	9.1%
6	Blogger Mountain View, California, United States A free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains. Free	4.4%
7	Tumblr San Francisco, California, United States A blogging and social publishing platform that lets users connect a custom domain to their blogs. Free$6.99/month	1.9%
8	Ninja Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blogging platform. Free480 JPY/month	0.2%
9	Substack San Francisco, California, United States A newsletter and blogging platform that allows you to connect your own domain. Free$$$	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Blogging Platforms in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 160,338 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 15 blogging platforms across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.