How much Japanese Tokyo jobs actually ask for, how many are English-friendly, and what language the postings themselves are written in.
Usually. 90% of live Tokyo jobs ask for Japanese: 8% state a level (N1, native or similar) and 83% are posted in Japanese without naming one. 12% are rated English-friendly, and 19 jobs explicitly need no Japanese. Language requirements are partly AI-estimated from each posting (as of October 8, 2026).
11% of live Tokyo jobs (775) are posted in English (as of October 8, 2026).
Ranked lists 6,989 live jobs in Tokyo from 288 employers (as of October 8, 2026).
Japanese levels are exclusive; English and other-language signals may overlap.
How to read these numbers responsibly.
6,989 live employer job pages explicitly located in Tokyo or a named Tokyo ward/neighborhood. Duplicate IDs and expired listings are removed; 2,216 Japan-wide or non-Tokyo listings are excluded.
A skill counts when the posting's structured vector is at least 70% confident. This includes explicit requests and strong deterministic implications such as React implying JavaScript.
Only valid ranges with both a minimum and maximum are used. We take each range midpoint, then calculate the median or mean across jobs. The complete-range coverage is 53%.
The current snapshot refreshes after the job crawl. Daily aggregate snapshots are retained, and trend comparisons appear after 14 comparable days. Skill, language and visa-support fields are AI-assisted estimates; verify details on the employer's original posting.