Justplay

In Japan's ordering this is number 51 of 88, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The directory records no language for Justplay. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

Only three entries in Japan put j-pop first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

128 kbps matches Japan's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

The stream is served from justplay.stream.laut.fm, which no other entry in Japan uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.