About passed.jp
passed.jp is a service portal that cheers on everyone's passing and growing. We gather several web services for people who want to get better at anything — passing an exam, building a skill, picking up a hobby — across every part of life.
Every service is free and needs no sign-up. They're built so you can start lightly, at your own pace. From a quick daily break to serious study, we deliver a platform that meets a wide range of needs.
🎮 games.passed.jp
a set of original free games for when you want a little break in your day. Tired from work or study, just play in your browser. No sign-up, so you can start the moment you feel like it. Find your own pace inside a game you can sink into.
Play games📚 A-English Exams EnglishPassed-Z
A free English problem set for learners aiming to pass an English exam. We've prepared questions for a range of needs — TOEIC, Eiken, university entrance exams, and more. Study at your own pace, and go over anything you don't understand as many times as you like. A place where you can feel your English steadily growing.
Study English🎬 pleasewatch.passed.jp
An article site where we introduce manga, anime, films, and other entertainment we'd love you to watch or read. From talked-about titles to hidden gems, we share what makes each work appealing from our own angle. All articles are free to read (to watch or read the works themselves, please use the relevant streaming services or bookstores).
Check out worksOur Media
passed.jp also runs media that support getting better at games and meeting new works.
🎥 passed games
a game video channel about getting better from passed.jp, delivering tips for getting better at popular games like Splatoon 2 and Fortnite in an easy-to-follow, calm commentary style. Rather than just playing, we hope the fun of getting better becomes a reason to enjoy time together with friends and family.
Visit the channel🔍 Uncut
Uncut is a discovery channel bringing overlooked Japanese games to the world: hidden Japanese games on Steam that get few reviews and are easily overlooked, carefully picked by taste and genre and introduced to players abroad. It's not a place where we make games ourselves, but a place to meet good works by others that haven't been found yet. We dig up genres for the discerning — deckbuilding roguelikes, turn-based tactics, logic puzzles — through a global lens.
Discover gamesWhat passed.jp Cares About
passed.jp aims to be a service portal where everyone can face passing and growing at their own pace. We value not only learning with a clear goal, like an entrance exam or a qualification, but also the small growth hidden inside play taken as a break.
Each service is designed to be free and registration-free. We value the feeling of "I just want to try it," and by lowering the bar at the entrance, we help more people meet learning and enjoyment.
Who We Made This For
People who want a break between work or study — refresh your head with games.passed.jp, playable right in your browser during a short break.
People aiming to pass an English exam — build real ability steadily with the free problem set at english.passed.jp, covering TOEIC, Eiken, university entrance exams, and more.
People looking for what to read or watch next — the recommendations at pleasewatch.passed.jp might lead you to a great work you haven't met yet.
What's Next
passed.jp plans to keep adding services that support exams beyond English, qualification study, and picking up hobbies and skills. We'll keep delivering free web services that anyone can start lightly, all in line with the keywords of passing and growing.
Latest Articles
What to Eat the Day Before and on Exam Day — Choosing by Digestion and Mood So You Don't Lose Your Edge
2026-06-24 12:00:00 · Exam Prep
What you eat on exam day really does change your morning edge. But it isn't about hitting 'the one right meal' — it's about reading the trade-off between your body (digestion) and your mind (mood) for yourself. From the night before, to breakfast, to between-section snacks, to caffeine, to the tonkatsu good-luck charm, each item comes with the 'why.' For university entrance exams, TOEIC, Eiken and other tests. Nutrition here is general, not medical advice.
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How to Spend the Night Before an Exam: What Not to Do, and How to Set Up for Your Best Performance
2026-06-22 20:35:00 · Exam Prep
A concrete, operator's-eye guide to spending the night before an exam. For the eve of a university entrance exam, TOEIC, Eiken, or any certification test: how to wrap up studying, how to sleep, packing your bag, confirming the route to the venue, rehearsing the morning, and the things you must not do. Every step comes with one line on why it works — a setup you can use tonight.
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Exam-Day Time Allocation and How to Physically Prevent Marking Mistakes: Order, Skip-Calls, and Review Priority
2026-06-22 18:45:00 · Exam Prep
In the exam room — university entrance exams, TOEIC, Eiken, professional certifications — the points you lose to running out of time and shifting your answer rows come not from a gap in ability but from a gap in how you designed your time. How to decide the order you solve in, how to judge which questions to abandon, a formula for carving up your time, the priority order for reviewing, how to physically prevent marking shifts, and what to do with the time that remains. A column you can use as-is on the day, with the 'why' behind each step. Nutrition here is general, not medical advice.
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Stop Trying Not to Be Nervous: How to Perform Under Pressure on Exam Day, Assuming the Nerves Will Come
2026-06-22 17:00:00 · Exam Prep
Searching for "how not to be nervous on exam day" won't make the nerves disappear; the harder you try to kill them, the more you spin your wheels. So flip the premise: assume you'll be nervous, and perform anyway. Breathing techniques, how to settle your body, routines for the night before and the final minutes, and how to recover mid-problem — each step numbered with the 'why' behind it. For overcoming exam anxiety in university entrance exams, TOEIC, Eiken and other certifications. A practical column written in the first person by the operator of passed.jp.
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Maybe Business-Card Exchange 3.0 Is Possible — Adding One More Twist to the Fill-In Back, Toward a "Trading Business Card"
2026-06-15 22:30:00 · Challenge
A business card you receive never quite feels like something you can use, and it's somehow short on playfulness. On the first card I ever made after starting my company (v1.0), I put my own product on the back; on the next (v2.0), I made the back a fill-in form the other person could write on, hoping they'd remember me later. And just now, I had an idea that goes one step further: what if the card itself were something people *want*, like a trading card? Could I turn it into a "trading business card"? It isn't a finished thing yet — I'm writing down an idea still being explored, honestly.
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I Want to Try a Podcast After Turning 40 — So I'm Building the "Tool," a Voice to Talk With, First (Podcast Log #1)
2026-06-15 16:00:00 · Challenge
A podcast — something I'd wanted to do for a long time. After turning 40, I started to feel I might have something worth saying. But the catch is how hard talking alone is. So I'm now taking on the tool first: can I build a partner to talk with, a voice to bounce off? It isn't finished. Without knowing whether it'll work, this is the first entry in a log — the feeling at the moment of starting, and the honest motive that this, too, is to grow.
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