The Podcast Census 2026
How many Japanese podcasts are there?
There are 49,041 Japanese-language podcasts in the Podcast Index, 1.1% of all podcasts, and 11,355 of them published an episode in the last 90 days. That is 23.2% still active, 2.5 times the 9.4% rate for all podcasts. Japanese punches above its size: 2.7% of active shows against 1.1% of all of them.
- 49,041shows listed
- 11,355active in the last 90 days
- 23.2%still active (all podcasts: 9.4%)
- 2.7%of all active podcasts
How many Japanese podcasts are still going?
11,355 of 49,041: 23.2%. By that measure Japanese ranks 1st of the 12 languages on these pages for keeping shows alive. It ranks 8th by shows ever listed but 6th by active ones.
Survival by episode count and growth by year are counted for all podcasts together in the census, not language by language, so they are not repeated here.
How does Japanese compare with other podcast languages?
Japanese is the 8th-largest language by shows listed, after Italian (78,092).
Questions
How many Japanese podcasts are there?
49,041 in the Podcast Index dump of 26 September 2026, after removing duplicates and empty feeds. 11,355 published in the 90 days before it.
What share of Japanese-language podcasts are active?
23.2%, against 9.4% of all 4,391,041 podcasts.
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Where do these numbers come from?
Podcast Index public database, dump of 26 September 2026, cleaned by Slice to 4,391,041 shows (duplicates, empty feeds, clones and test feeds removed). Active means an episode in the 90 days before the dump.
n = 49,041 Japanese podcasts, 11,355 active. Last updated 2 October 2026.
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