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For teams in Japan · updated 2026-10-12

What changes when you buy from Japan

Test automation for Japanese teams with accessibility audits mapped to JIS X 8341-3, vulnerability assessment and authorised penetration tests with evidence, E2E, API and load testing. APPI-specific transfer agreement; Japanese product interface.

The laws a testing buyer in Japan has to satisfy

Checked on 2026-10-12: 0 of 3 read at the statute, regulator or government page; the rest from law-firm or practitioner summaries, marked as such. A law changes; this table carries the date so you can tell when it needs re-checking.

The Japanese law translation portal, the Personal Information Protection Commission and the JIS database all refused automated access on the check date, so every entry above rests on law-firm and practitioner summaries. Treat the table as a map of what to verify with your counsel, not as the text.

Laws and standards for Japan (checked 2026-10-12)
Law or standardWhat it requires of youStatus as checkedSource read
JIS X 8341-3:2016The Japanese Industrial Standard for web content accessibility, technically equivalent to WCAG 2.0; public bodies and many companies test and declare conformance against it.Current edition 2016. A revision aligned with ISO/IEC 40500:2025 (WCAG 2.2) began in October 2025 and is expected in 2026, as reported by Japanese accessibility practitioners.gihyo.jpsecondary source
Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), as amended by Act No. 56 of 2026Controller obligations, rules on providing personal data to a third party abroad, and the new surcharge and consent provisions of the 2026 amendment.The amendment was promulgated on 17 July 2026; penalty provisions apply from 17 January 2027 and the main reforms by 17 July 2028, according to law-firm summaries. The amendment text was not read directly during this check.www.aoshearman.comsecondary source
Act for Eliminating Discrimination against Persons with DisabilitiesReasonable accommodation became mandatory for private businesses on 1 April 2024; web accessibility itself remains an obligation to make efforts, as reported by Japanese practitioners.In force; the 2024 change applies, as reported by Japanese practitioners. The official translation portal refused automated access during this check, so the text was not read.www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jpsecondary source

Where your data goes, and what covers it

Customer data is hosted in Mumbai, India. We sign an APPI-specific processing agreement, because the EU clauses alone are not sufficient under the Act. Enterprise customers who need processing inside Japan can run the platform on their own infrastructure.

The full table of instruments by regime is section 5 of the Data Processing Addendum; the current state of every certification we do and do not hold is on the trust centre.

The accessibility target for Japan

JIS X 8341-3:2016, equivalent to WCAG 2.0, at the level you declare (usually AA). The audit runs against WCAG 2.2 A, AA and AAA, which contains 2.0, and reports at the level you select; the conformance declaration under the JIS is yours to publish from the findings.

Audits map findings to sixty-six country standards and export a conformance report; how the accessibility module works.

The words Japan uses for the need, mapped

The same job has a different name in every market, and sometimes the honest answer is that the name describes a service we are not.

テスト自動化ツール, 自動テスト ツール, E2Eテスト ツール

Record once in a real browser, heal with a person in the loop, export to Playwright or Selenium.

Test recorder

脆弱性診断, ペネトレーションテスト

The scanner is the vulnerability assessment; the authorised exploitation step is the penetration test, run against systems whose ownership is proven, with evidence on every confirmed finding.

Security testing

アクセシビリティ 検査 ツール, JIS X 8341-3 対応

Audits against WCAG 2.2 with a conformance report at the level you select; the JIS declaration is yours to publish from the findings.

Accessibility audits

APIテスト ツール, 負荷テスト ツール

REST, GraphQL, gRPC and SOAP in the API studio; load profiles from a recorded flow.

API testing studio

個人情報保護法

An APPI-specific processing agreement for the transfer, processor terms in the addendum, and synthetic test data so staging holds no personal data.

Data Processing Addendum

Billing and support hours

Prices are quoted in US dollars on every plan, before any tax your jurisdiction applies to imported software services. Self-serve plans are paid by card; Enterprise agreements are invoiced. If procurement needs a quotation with your tax identifiers, ask through the contact form (topic: billing).

Tokyo is 3.5 hours ahead of Indian Standard Time, so an Indian morning is a Japanese early afternoon. Response targets by plan are on the service levels page.

Plans and caps are on the pricing page; response targets by plan are on the service levels page.

Questions teams in Japan ask

Does the audit map to JIS X 8341-3?

Yes. JIS X 8341-3:2016 is equivalent to WCAG 2.0, and the audit runs against WCAG 2.2, which contains 2.0, reporting at the level you select. When the JIS revision aligned with WCAG 2.2 is published, the same audit covers it. The conformance declaration itself is published by you from the findings.

Is the product available in Japanese?

The product interface is, as one of its twenty-one languages. This marketing site’s Japanese edition is planned and will be published under its own prefix only once a reviewer has approved the translation.

What covers the transfer of personal data to India under the APPI?

An APPI-specific processing agreement, which we sign with you; the EU Standard Contractual Clauses alone are not sufficient under the Act. Enterprise customers who need processing inside Japan can run the platform on their own infrastructure.

Next step

Start on the Free plan, or bring one flow from your own product and we record it live.

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