Glossary: proxies and the East Asian web

A proxy whose exit IP belongs to a home internet connection, assigned by a local internet provider.

A proxy whose exit IP belongs to a hosting company. Usually faster and cheaper, but not seen as a home visitor.

An IP registered to an internet provider and reserved for one customer for a long period. JapanProxies does not sell this product.

The IP address a website sees when your request arrives through the proxy.

The server you connect to, gw.japanproxies.com, which forwards your traffic to an exit IP in the country you chose.

Getting an IP from the pool for each new connection, usually a different one; the default when no session is set. Send one request per connection to change IP on every request.

Keeping the same exit IP for a set time by reusing a session ID in the username. At JapanProxies: the time you set (ttl, in minutes), up to 30 minutes; the IP can change earlier, for example if the residential device goes offline.

Letters and digits you choose in the username (-session-a1). The same ID keeps the same IP while the exit stays online; a new ID usually gives a new one.

Time to live: how many minutes a sticky session lasts, set with -ttl-MINUTES.

Choosing the exit country with a two-letter code in the username, such as jp for Japan.

Choosing an exit city with -city-NAME in the username, such as -city-osaka. JapanProxies includes it on every plan; city availability varies.

The method an HTTP proxy uses to open a tunnel for HTTPS traffic, so the connection to the site stays encrypted end to end.

A proxy protocol that carries any TCP traffic. Use socks5h so the hostname is resolved at the exit.

Proxy Authentication Required: the proxy rejected the username or password.

Paying for the data that goes through the proxy, not for time or for the number of IPs.

One mobile modem with a local carrier SIM reserved for one customer, billed per day, with a new IP on request.

The regional internet registry for Asia-Pacific, which allocates IP addresses in the region.

National internet registries of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, working under APNIC.

A public lookup that shows which organisation holds an IP address range.

An estimate of where an IP address is used, made by database companies from registry, routing and measurement data.

A file in which a network states where its IP ranges are used, so geolocation databases can correct their data.

NTT East and NTT West's fibre network in Japan, resold by many internet providers.

Chunghwa Telecom's internet service, Taiwan's largest home broadband provider.

The three main home broadband operators in South Korea.

Two of the main home broadband providers in Hong Kong.

A major Japanese portal run by LY Corporation. Its search uses Google's search technology, with its own ads and modules.

South Korea's largest web portal, whose result page is built from sections such as blogs, cafés, news and shopping.

A South Korean web portal, run since December 2025 by AXZ, a company spun off from Kakao.

Rakuten's marketplace of independent shops in Japan; each shop sets its own price and point rate.

Price-comparison sites in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.

A large South Korean online retailer and marketplace, known for its Rocket Delivery promise.

Two large online stores in Taiwan.

Google URL parameters for the interface language and the country to favour, such as hl=ja&gl=jp.

The request header that tells a site which languages you prefer, such as ja-JP or ko-KR.

Know your customer: identity checks with documents. JapanProxies does not run them.

An anti-money-laundering rule under which crypto exchanges share sender and recipient details for transfers; applied in Japan since June 2023 and in South Korea.

Token standards on the Tron and Ethereum networks. USDT is accepted on both; USDC on ERC-20.

A new block added after your transaction. A top-up is credited after a set number of confirmations per network.

Crypto sent to your JapanProxies balance, minimum $25, from which you buy plans.

The personal data laws of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The rules every JapanProxies customer accepts: what the service may and may not be used for.