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Japan visa photo
35 × 45 mm at 300 dpi, ready to print. Japan wants a photograph, not a file.
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How to make a Japan visa photo
- Drop a photo of yourself against a plain, evenly lit wall.
- Move the box so your head and shoulder tops fill it.
- Press Make photo and download the 413 × 531 JPEG.
What happens to your file
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan states the rules for a visa photograph, and these are its words: “45mm × 35mm or 2in x 1.4in” — the ministry’s own application form. “Photo must have white or single color background, without shadows, texture, or lines” — an embassy standards sheet, 2025. “File format: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, HEIC — File size: up to 2MB is recommended.” — the Japan eVISA frequently asked questions. This page writes 413 × 531 pixels, which is exactly 35 × 45 mm at 300 dpi. Print it at that size and every measurement is right.
Japan publishes no pixel size and no DPI for the face photograph. The eVISA site names accepted formats and a recommended ceiling of 2 MB, and that is all. Any site quoting exact pixels for Japan invented them.
The size is not the same at every mission. The ministry’s form says 45 × 35 mm; the embassy in India asks for 45 × 45 mm; the embassy in the Philippines asks for 4.5 × 3.5 cm; the consulate in New York accepts a 2 × 2 inch US passport photo. Read the checklist of the mission you are applying to.
This page makes the 35 × 45 mm the ministry’s own form asks for, at 300 dpi, which prints correctly and is comfortably under the eVISA ceiling.
The crop and the encode happen in your browser. A photograph of your face, attached to an application, is exactly the kind of file that should not travel to a stranger’s server, and here it does not.
What we cannot check for you: that the photograph is recent, in colour, evenly lit, and taken against white or a single colour, without shadows, texture or lines. Those are yours. Every figure on this page was read off the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan’s own page on 2026-09-10; if it has changed since, the authority is right and we are not.
Questions
What size photo does a Japan visa need?
35 millimetres by 45, printed. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan publishes no pixel size and no file size at all, so this page makes that physical size at 300 dpi.
What background does it need?
White or a single colour, without shadows, texture or lines. A plain wall in even daylight is the easiest way to get one — stand a good arm’s length in front of it so your own shadow falls away.
Is my photograph uploaded anywhere?
No. A JPG, PNG or WebP is cropped and encoded by your own browser; the page works with the network unplugged. Only a format the browser cannot decode, such as HEIC from an iPhone, takes the cloud path, and the page says so before it does.
Do it once, not on every form
A form that wants a square JPEG under 240 KB says so on the page. The Fylane extension reads that, fits your photo to it, and puts it in the field — without you working out what 240 KB looks like.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
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Do this in code
curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"file_id": "<file id>",
"operation": "image.id-photo",
"options": {
"out_width": 413,
"out_height": 531,
"background": "#ffffff"
}
}'The same operation, image.id-photo — A photograph for an identity document: exactly the pixels an authority asks for, under exactly the bytes it allows. Crop it by eye, or let the subject centre it. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.