Japan Visa Photo Maker — Pick Your Size
There is no national Japanese visa photo size, and that is not an oversight — it is how Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has arranged it. MOFA’s own visa page states no dimensions at all and directs you instead to the embassy or consulate “that have jurisdiction over the country/region where the foreigner visiting Japan resides.” The size is devolved to the mission handling your application, so the question “what size is a Japan visa photo?” has no answer until you know where you are applying. Every site that gives you one number is answering a question Japan has not asked.
Japan has no single visa photo size — it depends on the mission you apply to. Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes no dimensions on its own visa page. It directs you to the embassy or consulate with jurisdiction over where you live, and those missions genuinely differ. Check what yours publishes, then pick the matching size below. We’d rather show you the options than guess.
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Official requirement published by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Requirements change — confirm against that page before you submit.
Japan Visa Photo Maker — Pick Your Size
There is no national Japanese visa photo size, and that is not an oversight — it is how Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has arranged it. MOFA’s own visa page states no dimensions at all and directs you instead to the embassy or consulate “that have jurisdiction over the country/region where the foreigner visiting Japan resides.” The size is devolved to the mission handling your application, so the question “what size is a Japan visa photo?” has no answer until you know where you are applying. Every site that gives you one number is answering a question Japan has not asked.
The disagreement starts inside MOFA’s own paperwork: the English application form you glue the photo onto offers two sizes at once, 45mm x 35mm or 2in x 1.4in. From there the missions diverge. Denver, Manila and the UK embassy describe the 45 x 35mm portrait shape (the UK hedges it as “approx.”). New York states 2 x 1.4in and then adds that a 2 x 2in US passport photo is acceptable — a spec plus an amnesty. Chicago’s checklist, the freshest source we found, asks for 2 x 2in or 2 x 1.4in and never mentions millimetres at all.
The 45 x 45mm square that third-party sites present as Japan’s national standard is published by exactly two missions, both in India, and both pages look unmaintained — one carries a 2012 copyright and recommends Internet Explorer 7, the other still lists holidays for 2019. The New Delhi page also glosses 45mm as “2 inches”, which is arithmetically wrong (45mm is 1.77in) and is plausibly where the whole “Japan wants a 2 x 2in photo” folk belief came from. We list it because it is officially published, not because it is the default.
Pick the size your mission publishes and this tool will crop and size to it in your browser, with nothing uploaded. Other things vary too: India says colour only while Manila explicitly permits monochrome, backgrounds range from “white” to “white or off-white” to “white or single colour”, and only Denver quantifies head height (32–36mm). Your mission’s own checklist is the authority — not this page, and not any other.
Common questions
There is no single answer, and that is Japan’s own position. MOFA states no size on its visa page and directs you to the mission with jurisdiction over where you live. Its application form offers 45mm x 35mm or 2in x 1.4in; individual missions publish 45 x 35mm, 2 x 1.4in, 2 x 2in, or 45 x 45mm. Check yours before you print anything.
Only if you are applying in India. That square size is published by the Embassy of Japan in India and the Consulate-General in Mumbai, and we found no other official Japanese page stating it. Third-party sites present it as the national standard; the official evidence does not support that.
At some US missions, yes. New York specifies 2 x 1.4in but says a 2 x 2in US passport photo is acceptable, and Chicago and Denver both list 2 x 2in as an option. That is a US-facing accommodation — it says nothing about what a mission elsewhere will take.
MOFA’s eVISA FAQ states no photo dimensions at all, and the eVISA covers tourism only — other purposes still apply on paper. Any specific pixel or file-size figure circulating for the eVISA is not something we could source from MOFA.
No. The crop and resize run in your browser using the Canvas API — the photo never leaves your device.