⚡ 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 1.3% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 201K+ 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 Hatena Blog with an impressive share of 32.3%, followed by Tumblr with 20% and Livedoor Blog with 17.9%.

Hatena Blog 32.3%
Tumblr 20%
Livedoor Blog 17.9%
WordPress.com 10%
Movable Type 6.7%
FC2 5.1%
Blogger 3.7%
Naver Blog 2.4%
Medium 1.7%
Substack 1.5%
Tumblr (Hosted) 1.1%
Tistory 0.2%
Ninja Blog 0.2%
Substack (Hosted) 0.08%

🚀 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. Hatena Blog ^(-7)
3. Livedoor Blog ^(-7)
5. Movable Type ^(-7)
6. FC2 ^(-7)
13. Ninja Blog ^(-6)

✨ Best Blogging Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 14 blogging platforms used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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. Free¥1,008/month	32.3%
2	Tumblr San Francisco, California, United States A blogging and social networking platform that allows users to publish multimedia posts, interact with others, and host blogs on custom domains. Free$6.99/month	20%
3	Livedoor Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to create and manage blogs with customizable designs. Free	17.9%
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	10%
5	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	6.7%
6	FC2 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A Japanese blog hosting service. Free	5.1%
7	Blogger Mountain View, California, United States A free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains. Free	3.7%
8	Naver Blog Seongnam, Korea A free blogging platform operated by the South Korean company Naver. Free	2.4%
9	Medium San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system. $5+/month	1.7%
10	Substack San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers. Free$$$	1.5%
11	Tumblr (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A blogging platform that lets users connect custom domains to their blogs. Free$6.99/month	1.1%
12	Tistory Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A South Korean blogging platform and social networking service. Free	0.2%
13	Ninja Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blogging platform. Free¥480/month	0.2%
14	Substack (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A newsletter publishing platform that also provides hosted blogs with support for custom domains. Free$50	0.08%

👉 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 201,037 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 20 blogging platforms across the web.
Of these, 14 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.