PayPal Japanese Page
I’ve known it for a long time that PayPal provided the Japanese payment page but it’s recent I was able to duplicate the Japanese PayPal checkout page with my English version of web browser such as IE.
The trick is your browser needs to let PayPal know your language preference. To do that, you need to add Japanese to your browser’s Language options. If it’s IE, you can get to the option:
Tools -> Internet Options -> General
Click the “Language” button:
And, this is what you would see at the PayPal checkout:
December 26th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Have you figured out how to get a Japanese PayPal checkout with the Japanese credit card logo panel and ability to process those cards , i.e. JCB..? everytime I try to sign on to the Japanese PayPal site it defaults to the dot u s site.
December 27th, 2010 at 10:22 am
You can get into the Japanese PayPal site by changing your browser’s language precedence as shown in this blog. However, in order to create an account there, you need to have a Japanese credit card issued by a Japanese bank, which is impossible if you live in US. That’s what I found a year ago.