⚡ Social Sharing in Japan

Social sharing tools are online widgets and plugins that allow users to easily share web content on social media platforms, including buttons to post, like, or save to networks such as Facebook, X, and Pinterest.

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

According to our research, social sharing tools are used on 10.9% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 170K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top social sharing tools in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Tweet with a substantial share of 65.2%, followed by Facebook Share with 40.4% and Facebook Like with 19.4%.

Tweet 65.2%
Facebook Share 40.4%
Facebook Like 19.4%
Hatena Bookmark Button 13.5%
AddToAny 10.7%
Pinterest Save 7.3%
SnapWidget 4.3%
Google +1 Button 2.4%
ShareThis 1.4%
Mixi Check 0.6%
EmbedSocial 0.5%
Mixi Like 0.3%
Submit to Reddit 0.3%
Shareaholic 0.2%
Tumblr Share 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Facebook Like ^(-2)
4. Hatena Bookmark Button ^(-12)
7. SnapWidget ^(-7)
8. Google +1 Button ^(-4)
10. Mixi Check ^(-26)
11. EmbedSocial ^(-11)
12. Mixi Like ^(-26)
14. Shareaholic ^(-1)
16. LinkedIn Share ^(-9)
17. Social Networks Auto Poster ^(-18)

✨ Best Social Sharing Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 social sharing tools used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Tweet Bastrop, Texas, United States The Tweet button or link that allows site visitors to share content on X.	65.2%
2	Facebook Share Menlo Park, California, United States Lets people add a personalized message to links before sharing on their timeline, in groups, or to their friends via a Facebook Message.	40.4%
3	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A widget that can be integrated into a website to enable visitors to "Like" posts on Facebook.	19.4%
4	Hatena Bookmark Button Kyoto, Japan The share button for the Japanese social service Hatena Bookmark.	13.5%
5	AddToAny San Francisco, California, United States A universal sharing platform that can be integrated into a website and makes it easy for visitors to share content on any of the 80+ supported services. Free	10.7%
6	Pinterest Save San Francisco, California, United States Allows visitors to save content they like on a site to Pinterest with a single click.	7.3%
7	SnapWidget Pretoria, South Africa Helps you display Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube on your website to increase your followers. $8+/month	4.3%
8	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	2.4%
9	ShareThis Palo Alto, California, United States A social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. Free	1.4%
10	Mixi Check Tokyo, Japan The Mixi Check button (mixiチェック).	0.6%
11	EmbedSocial Skopje, Macedonia A social media aggregator that enables brands to collect and embed social media posts or reviews published by other people. Free$29+/month	0.5%
12	Mixi Like Tokyo, Japan The Mixi Like button (イイネ！ボタン).	0.3%
13	Submit to Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A hyperlink for submission of a URL to Reddit.	0.3%
14	Shareaholic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Enables marketers, publishers and site owners to personalize how relevant content is discovered, consumed, engaged with, and shared. Free$10+/month	0.2%
15	Tumblr Share San Francisco, California, United States Allows users to post content to Tumblr.	0.2%
16	LinkedIn Share Mountain View, California, United States Allows users to easily share content to their LinkedIn network.	0.1%
17	Social Networks Auto Poster Ringwood, New Jersey, United States A WordPress plugin that automatically publishes posts to social media accounts such as Twitter, Blogger, LinkedIn, Medium, Telegram, etc. Free	0.1%
18	Social Warfare Harbor Springs, Michigan, United States A social sharing plugin for WordPress with a popular posts widget, click to tweet quotes and premium sharing options. FreeOpen source$29	0.06%
19	Weibo Share Beijing, China The share button for the Chinese social network Weibo.	0.06%
20	Metricool Madrid, Spain A social media management and analytics tool that allows you to analyze, schedule, and manage social media content. Free$22+/month	0.06%
21	Hubbub Santa Monica, California, United States A social sharing plugin for WordPress that supports 19 social networks in the Pro edition. Free$49+/year	0.05%
22	Simple Social Buttons Sialkot, Pakistan A WordPress plugin that allows you to add social sharing buttons to your website. Free$49+	0.05%
23	Mashshare Butwal, Nepal A WordPress social media sharing plugin with share count aggregation. Free$39+/year	0.04%
24	WP Social Ninja Newark, Delaware, United States A plugin for WordPress that allows you to embed social feeds (Instagram, Facebook), reviews (Google Reviews, WooCommerce Reviews), and chat widgets into your website. Free$44/year	0.03%
25	Juicer Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A social media aggregator that allows you to display content from up to 18 different social media channels in a customizable feed on your website. Free$25+/month	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Social Sharing 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 170,082 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 42 social sharing tools across the web.
Of these, 32 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.