⚡ Content Management Systems in Japan

Content Management Systems (CMS) are software solutions that allow users to create, edit, and organize website content without coding, simplifying ongoing website maintenance.

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

According to our research, content management systems are used on 45.2% of websites from Japan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 96.6% share.
It is followed by Orikoh Blog with 0.6% and Drupal with 0.4%.

WordPress 96.6%
Orikoh Blog 0.6%
Drupal 0.4%
Movable Type 0.3%
Concrete CMS 0.3%
Joomla 0.2%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.2%
BaserCMS 0.2%
HubSpot CMS 0.2%
XOOPS 0.2%
Contentful 0.1%
DNN 0.1%
Sitecore 0.08%
Media Weaver 0.08%
Other 0.4%

🚀 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.

2. Orikoh Blog ^(-60)
4. Movable Type ^(-72)
5. Concrete CMS ^(-12)
8. BaserCMS ^(-96)
10. XOOPS ^(-59)
13. Sitecore ^(-3)
14. Media Weaver ^(-154)
15. 🛠️ TieredWorks ^(-186)
16. Nucleus ^(-179)
17. Site Miraiz ^(-192)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 88 CMS platforms used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WordPress San Francisco, California, United States A widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	96.6%
2	Orikoh Blog Nagasaki, Japan A Japanese corporate website creation software. $$$	0.6%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.4%
4	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	0.3%
5	Concrete CMS Portland, Oregon, United States An open source content management system built with PHP and MySQL that combines in-context editing and modular page building. FreeOpen source	0.3%
6	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.2%
7	Adobe Experience Manager San Jose, California, United States A software solution that's equal part content management system and digital asset management system. $50,000+/year	0.2%
8	BaserCMS An open source content management system developed in Japan. FreeOpen source	0.2%
9	HubSpot CMS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A hosted platform for building websites, blogs, landing pages, apps, and emails that integrates tightly with HubSpot CRM and other marketing tools. Free$15+/seat/month	0.2%
10	XOOPS An open source CMS based on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.2%
11	Contentful Berlin, Germany A commercial, cloud-based, headless content management system that structures content for use across multiple digital platforms via APIs. Free$300+/month	0.1%
12	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	Sitecore San Francisco, California, United States An enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels. $40,000+/year	0.08%
14	Media Weaver Tokyo, Japan A Japanese cloud CMS created to support the creation of media websites. $$$	0.08%
15	🛠️ TieredWorks A Japanese content management system. $$$	0.05%
16	Nucleus A free open-source content management system. FreeOpen source	0.04%
17	Site Miraiz	0.04%
18	Craft Bend, Oregon, United States A flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii framework. Free$279+	0.04%
19	TYPO3 Düsseldorf, Germany An open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP that supports multisite and multilingual installations and has a large extension repository. FreeOpen source	0.04%
20	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.04%
21	Mastodon Berlin, Germany Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the ActivityPub protocol. FreeOpen source	0.03%
22	Strapi San Francisco, California, United States An open-source headless CMS built with Node.js and TypeScript that connects to various databases and frontend frameworks. FreeOpen source$45+/month	0.03%
23	Bolt A fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running modern websites. FreeOpen source	0.02%
24	i-SITE Tottori, Japan A Japanese content management system based on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server.	0.02%
25	Amplience London, United Kingdom A headless CMS and DAM platform that centralizes structured content creation, asset storage, and delivery via APIs for omnichannel experiences. $25,000+/year	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 144,429 websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on February 3, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.