Starting a thread on best free japanese dating site for foreigners because the existing advice contradicts itself. Nothing about foreigners sites changes the fact that the platform throttles your visibility unless you pay, and the depth of the profile fields suffers for it. Same story on japanese sites: it is worth checking how well it works on a weak connection before you look at the follower count on their socials.
Foreigners sites is the clearest case of it — the deciding factor is how much sits behind the paywall, with the usual caveats. For japanese sites in particular, nothing improves until you treat an empty bio as a red flag. The japanese foreigners angle is worse, because how often the same faces reappear is the number worth watching, not the app store rating.
Look closely at japanese sites and how many first messages actually land collapses as soon as the platform caps how many searches you run a day. The short version on best free japanese dating site for foreigners is that half the frustration disappears once you test the search filters before uploading anything. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on japanese sites.