Feasibility
Test access, field definitions and the difference between route presence and buyer evidence.
RESEARCH INDEX · AUG 2026
PUBLIC RESEARCH / JAPAN MARKET ENTRY
Research that shows what buyers can actually verify.
We separate language availability from the evidence a Japanese buying team needs to assess responsibility, trust, implementation and purchase continuity.
FIELD NOTE 0050
companies in a maximum-variation feasibility sample
PUBLISHED 25 AUG 2026
A Japanese page is not the same as Japan buyer evidence.
The first study tests a simple distinction: a translated page can explain a product without showing who supports it locally, how an enterprise verifies it, or whether the buying path survives the market boundary.
- 42 analysable homepages
- 11 with at least one Japanese-site signal
- 10 deliberately contrasting manual reviews
THE STUDY PROGRAMME
Reliability before scale.
Field Note 00 is a feasibility study, not a ranking. Each gate has to survive before a larger claim is made.
Reliability
Time the manual review, blind re-code selected cases and revise ambiguous fields.
Population
Deduplicate official event sources and lock the eligible company frame before collection.
Publication
Release findings, denominators, methodology, machine-readable observations and corrections together.
PUBLICATION CONTROLS
Every number keeps its boundary.
Population sources, retrieval dates and cited public pages accompany the finding.
Robots restrictions, failed fetches and inaccessible evidence are not silently converted into absence.
A correction can change recorded evidence. Payment cannot buy a favourable result.
Purposeful samples and provisional human coding are labelled where readers encounter the number.