{"id":1443,"date":"2026-07-06T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:39:37","slug":"a-free-tool-for-finding-japanese-government-tenders-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"A free tool for finding Japanese government tenders in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you do business in Japan \u2014 or want to \u2014 you already know that the public sector buys an enormous amount of goods, construction, and services through open tenders. The problem is that almost all of it is published in Japanese, on government portals that were never designed with non-Japanese readers in mind. A lot of capable companies simply never see the work they could be bidding on.<\/p>\n<p>We built a small, free tool to help with that: <a href=\"https:\/\/japan-tenders.loreatec.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">japan-tenders.loreatec.jp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What it does<\/h2>\n<p>It collects tenders from Japan&#8217;s official government procurement portal (\u5b98\u516c\u9700\u60c5\u5831\u30dd\u30fc\u30bf\u30eb \/ KKJ) and translates each one into English, so you can read what is being requested without copy-pasting into a translator. New tenders are added every day.<\/p>\n<h2>What you can do with it<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Browse the latest tenders<\/strong> in English, newest first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Search by keyword<\/strong> to find work that matches what you do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Filter<\/strong> by category (goods, construction, services), certification grade, prefecture, and date.<\/li>\n<li><strong>See the details that matter<\/strong> at a glance \u2014 the issuing organization, the location, the issue date, and the submission deadline.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open the original documents<\/strong> \u2014 every listing links back to the source PDF or announcement page, so you can check everything against the official Japanese record.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>An important note<\/h2>\n<p>The translations are automatic, so treat the site as a fast way to <em>find<\/em> opportunities, not as a legal document. When something looks relevant, open the linked original and confirm the details in Japanese \u2014 or with someone who reads it \u2014 before you invest time in a bid. That is how we use it ourselves.<\/p>\n<h2>Would rather not check every day?<\/h2>\n<p>You can subscribe to a weekly email digest of new tenders, so the opportunities come to you.<\/p>\n<p>It is free to use. Take a look: <a href=\"https:\/\/japan-tenders.loreatec.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">japan-tenders.loreatec.jp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We built a free tool that collects Japanese government tenders from the official portal and translates them into English, so you can find work you would otherwise never see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[231,229,178,230],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-tenders","tag-doing-business-in-japan","tag-government-tenders","tag-japan","tag-procurement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loreatec.jp\/e\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}