Machine-translated content doesn’t rank in Japan — and Japanese readers can tell in one paragraph.
Owned Media Japan is a Japan-based content studio, run by Japanese content professionals.
A professional system, powered by AI.
We built a complete content system — article templates designed by Japanese content marketing professionals, for Japanese readers — and the latest generative AI writes inside it.
Every article is then read by a Japanese content marketing professional before it reaches you.
Our system and templates
Built by Japanese content marketing professionals, for Japanese readers.
The latest generative AI
Writes the Japanese draft inside those templates.
A Japanese professional
Reads every article before delivery.
What you send us
Two things.
- What you want written — a topic, a keyword, or the business goal behind it.
- Your material — the first-hand information only your company has. Interview transcripts, recordings, press releases, product documents, customer stories. Send it in whatever form it already exists; you don’t need to write anything up.
What we do
Single articles
One article at a time.
From $150 / article
Ongoing monthly content
About 10 articles a month, plus a short report.
$1,500 – $2,500 / month
One-time package
A keyword map and a batch of articles.
From $6,000
How it works
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1. Brief
You send your target topics and your material, or we build the keyword map for you. Everything lives in a shared document.
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2. Draft
We write in Japanese, grounded in what Japanese users actually search for — not in a translation of your English page.
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3. Review
Every article ships with an English summary of its structure, target keywords, and search intent, so you can review it without reading Japanese.
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4. Report
A written weekly or monthly report on what shipped and how it is performing in Japanese search.
Nobody on our team speaks English.
So we communicate in writing only.
When generative AI got good enough to bridge that gap in writing, we decided the work itself — native Japanese content built for Japanese search — was worth the workaround. Every email and brief goes through AI-assisted translation on our end.
It’s not a perfect substitute for a bilingual account manager, and we know it. So we offer a free trial — see the quality for yourself before you commit to anything.
Frequently asked questions
We don’t have anyone who reads Japanese. How do we review the work?
Every article ships with an AI-generated English summary of its structure, target keywords, and search intent. You can see exactly what was written and why, without reading a word of Japanese.
Why can you run this business without speaking English?
We are sorry we can’t have a conversation with you in English. Our founder is studying it, to offer you an even better service down the road. Until then, we communicate with you mainly by email and chat, in text handled through AI-assisted translation. (If something specific comes up, we can also arrange a call with a translator.)
Native Japanese content requires deep knowledge of how Japanese people actually search and read — not English fluency. That’s the job.
How fast can you start?
As fast as one week after we receive what we need to start writing — a brief, target topics, or keywords.
Do you also handle publishing?
We can deliver as documents, or publish directly in your CMS if you give us access. Either way, formatting and internal linking are done for you.
Can you also set up hosting and a domain for us?
Yes — we can arrange Japan-based hosting and register a domain for you. If your audience is in Japan, hosting there usually means faster load times, which also helps with Japanese search rankings.