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r/japannews

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

146.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.7K upvotes, which works out to 39 per 1,000 members.

39peak upvotes per 1,000 members
146.9Kmembers
5.7Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
556posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

95%
Link 95% Video 2% Text 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

日本語 184 Paywall 6 $15,000 not $21,800 1 Half Beninese 1 Crime in ‘18, Convicted ‘24 1 Source in Comments 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

A female expert breaks down the problem with Japan's dating apps, where nobody ever seems to find a partner: Women are overwhelmed by huge numbers of…

↑ 5.7K 💬 445 link 2026

"Go Back To India": Restaurant Owner Ordered To Leave Japan After 30 Years- “My children were born and raised in Japan, they only understand Japanese…

↑ 4.9K 💬 750 link 2026

51.3% of households in Japan have an income of less than 2.5 million yen ($21,800 USD)- "The unspeakable truth about Japan, where everyone has become…

↑ 4.3K 💬 281 link 2026

Japanese adult video actress Hana Kuraki dead of apparent suicide

↑ 4.1K 💬 410 link 2026

Japanese Wedding Service CEO on women aged 35-39 who can't find a partner: "They think they want an 'average man' with college education, an income o…

↑ 4K 💬 689 link 2026

"The child was born in Japan and can only speak Japanese. Forced to return to India, which is nothing but a foreign country to him, he's crying. We'v…

↑ 3.9K 💬 961 link 2026

Female Associate Professor at Nagoya University catches male student filming her in toilet. University responds by removing teacher from class, not e…

↑ 3.8K 💬 119 link 2026

Teen girl in Japan refuses to be victim, personally escorts train pervert to police for arrest

↑ 3.7K 💬 78 link 2026

Man sentenced to death for murder of 2 girls in Iizuka Fukuoka despite repeated insistence he didn't do it. 12 days before his execution, news came s…

↑ 3.7K 💬 222 link 2026

22-year-old youtube streamer Airi Mogami persuaded fan Kenichi Takano (44) to give her money for various things until he was 4.5 million yen in the h…

↑ 3.7K 💬 604 link 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/japannews, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/japannews have?
r/japannews has about 146.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 556 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.7K upvotes, which is 39 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/japannews?
"A female expert breaks down the problem with Japan's dating apps, where nobody ever seems to find a partner: Women are overwhelmed by huge n" reached 5.7K upvotes and 445 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/japannews.
What subreddits are similar to r/japannews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/japannews?
Of the posts we hold, 95% are link posts and 2% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/japannews?
Across 556 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 11:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 00:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/japannews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/japannews has 3.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 256 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/japannews, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.