The most visited sites in Japan and Brazil

Have you ever stopped to think about how the Japanese spend their time on the internet? What are the most accessed sites in Japan and Brazil? With that in mind, we did a survey to share not only data and statistics regarding the Japanese internet, in this article we go further and make comparisons of internet use in Japan and Brazil.

About 100 million people use the internet in Japan, while in Brazil only 119 million have internet access. Of this number, about 75 million Japanese use the internet on their cell phones, while in Brazil the number is about 80 million.

The data in this article refer to the year 2017, so there may be differences with the present. Despite being old, they can serve as a cultural reference and ideas. We do not intend to update these rankings, data is provided by Google itself.

The most visited websites in Japan

The data used in this article is from the similarweb site, in the list you can see its position, link and the category that the site fits into. The list below shows the most visited sites in Japan:

1	google.co.jp	Search
2	yahoo.co.jp	News and Media
3	google.com	Search
4	youtube.com	Footage
5	twitter.com	Social media
6	amazon.co.jp	Virtual store
7	docomo.ne.jp	Internet and Telephony
8	rakuten.co.jp	Virtual store
9	fc2.com	web hosting
10	dmm.co.jp	Adult
11	facebook.com	Social media
12	news.yahoo.co.jp	News and Media
13	wikipedia.org	Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
14	nicovideo.jp	TV and Video
15	pornhub.com	Adult
16	livedoor.jp	News and Media
17	xvideos.com	Adult
18	pixiv.net	Visual Arts and Design
19	auone.jp	Internet and Telecom
20	amoeblo.jp	Social media
21	syosetu.com	Arts and Entertainment
22	instagram.com	Social media
23	eroterest.net	Adult
24	livedoor.com	News and Media
25	naver.jp	News and Media
26	movie.eroterest.net	Adult
27	goo.ne.jp	News and Media
28	blog.jp	web hosting
29	news.livedoor.com	News and Media
30	kakaku.com	Shopping
31	mbga.jp	Social media
32	ampproject.org	Computer and Electronics
33	weather.yahoo.co.jp	News and Media
34	shopping.yahoo.co.jp	Virtual store
35	dmm.com	Virtual store
36	5ch.net	Relative to 2ch and 4ch?
37	tablelog.com	food and drinks
38	cityheaven.net	Adult
39	doorblog.jp	people and society
40	amoeba.jp	Social media
41	dmkt-sp.jp	TV and Videos
42	tenki.jp	news and weather
43	gamewith.jp	Games
44	line.me	social network, messenger
45	xhamster.com	Adult
46	cookpad.com	food and drinks
47	nifty.com	Internet and telephony
48	jma.go.jp	news and weather
49	granbluefantasy.jp	Jogos

The most visited websites in Brazil

The list below shows the most visited websites in Brazil:

1	google.com.br	Search Engine
2	google.com	Search Engine
3	youtube.com	TV and Video
4	facebook.com	Social media
5	globe.com	News and Media
6	uol.com.br	News and Media
7	live.com	Internet, Email
8	Mercadolibre.com.br	Shopping
9	instagram.com	Social media
10	xvideos.com	Adult
11	yahoo.com	News and Media
12	twitter.com	Social media
13	netflix.com	TV and Video
14	whatsapp.com	Social media
15	ampproject.org	Computer and Electronics
16	googleweblight.com	???????????
17	xnxx.com	Adult
18	olx.com.br	Classified
19	wikipedia.org	Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
20	msn.com	News and Media
21	americanas.com.br	Shopping
22	xvideos.blog.br	Adult
23	pornhub.com	Adult
24	pinterest.com	Social media
25	sp.gov.br	Government
26	hg8dc7bm.com	Some ADS
27	folha.uol.com.br	News and Media
28	april.com.br	News and Media
29	terra.com.br	News and Media
30	linkedin.com	internet and telecommunications
31	bet365.com	Gambling
32	bol.uol.com.br	News and Media
33	itau.com.br	finance
34	vivo.com.br	Internet and Telecommunications
35	letters.mus.br	Arts and Entertainment
36	fazenda.gov.br	Law and Government
37	answers.yahoo.com	Reference
38	aliexpress.com	Shopping
39	news.uol.com.br	News and Media
40	brainly.com.br	career and education
41	correios.com.br	Business and Industry
42	wpadx.com	Adult
43	magazineluiza.com.br	Shopping
44	xhamster.com	Adult
45	mediafire.com	Internet and Telecom
46	amazon.com.br	Shopping
47	loboclick.com	Ads for adult websites
48	goo.gl	Internet and Telecom
49	monetize.com.br	courses

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Comparing most visited sites in Japan vs Brazil

What can we understand from the most accessed sites in Japan and Brazil? One of the most shocking things was to see in the Brazilian list an ADS site (ads) for adult sites (+18). This makes us understand that many Brazilians try to make money with adult sites in the country and in the world.

I was also impressed with the growth of the digital and physical products website monentizze.com.br, which surpasses access to the famous hotmart. Apparently yahoo.co.jp manages to be more popular than youtube in Japan. The Google video site also apparently manages to outpace the hits of the famous Japanese site nico nico.

Netflix is relatively new in Japan that it doesn't even appear in the ranking of the 49 most visited sites in the country. In Brazil we had several advertising or invisible sites on the list, which conveys the idea that many try to profit from ads in a heavy and violent way, using alternatives other than Google Adsense or ADX.

I wanted to put the amount of views from each country, but unfortunately the website I used as a source does not provide this data. We believe that the average number of visits for the top websites on the list is above 50 million monthly. I hope you enjoyed the article, if you did, share and leave your comments.

See What Japan Google Searches

At the end of 2017, Google revealed a list of the most performed searches on its search platform. In Brazil, the most searched term was Big Brother Brazil showing the level of culture. You will see that the Japanese are not so different from the Brazilians and are not as interested in knowledge as some imagine.

Let's start by showing the list of the 10 most searched terms in Japan and also in Brazil to make a comparison.

This first ranking is about the words that had the most increase and consequently were the most searched in the world. Of course, there are several other words and terms that had more searches, but should not be selected for the ranking.

In the Japanese ranking we find several outstanding people, let's talk a little about them below. First we should mention the concern about North Korea and the Japanese summer typhoons. The Iphone 8 is another common and affordable thing for the Japanese, I feel sorry for everyone who lives in Brazil, which makes the device a status thing.

It was impressive to see the role-playing game Dragon Quest 11 as the 3rd most searched on Google. Perhaps its release on the Nintendo switch and other portable platforms has made the demand become great. The installed base of the 3DS plus the success of the switch and even the dear PS4 should cover a large part of Japanese netizens.

In fifth place we have the WBC which stands for World Boxing Council or conselho nacional de boxe. I didn't imagine that the Japanese liked boxing so much.

Japanese from Google searches 2017

Now let's talk about the people who appeared in Japanese google searches in 2017.

Kobayashi Mao – A famous Japanese news presenter who was once an actress. Sadly, she died this year on June 22, 2017 at the age of 34 from breast cancer. This must be the main reason for high google searches.

Kazuyo Matsui – Japanese actress, investor, businesswoman, essayist, university professor and life counselor. The high search for this name on google was because the actress started talking about an affair that her husband of more than 17 years of marriage was having. A lot was talked about, even forbidden Viagra the man took.

Namie Amuro – A popular Japanese pop singer who announced her retirement on September 16, 2018.

Fumika Shimizu – Actress, idol and model. In February 2017 she announced her retirement to join a religion called Happy Science.

Chiemi Blouson – A Japanese comedian and actress who participated in several shows in 2017.

Other Japanese Google Rankings

Finally, let's share other rankings that google shared this year 2017:

Below is a ranking separated by gender:

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