passed.jp — Free web services that cheer on passing and growing

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.

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🎮 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

🎬 Please Watch

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 works

Our 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 games

What 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

Burning Grammar into Memory with Impossible English Sentences — We Built an "Impact" Department

2026-06-25 16:25:00 · Production

"My husband was killed by a giant anteater" — we use absurd English sentences like that as anchors for memorizing grammar. As the people who built it, we wrote down the new "Impact" department of english.passed.jp from its design philosophy to the guts of the implementation, and its honest limits. Clickbait headlines, sourced trivia, vertically-held YAML, fixed URLs and structured data. How we use technology to support "you touch it because it's interesting, and you remember it because you touched it."

I Built the "Tool," a Voice to Talk With — A Fully Local, Free Voice AI Called "kit," as a Parallel System (Podcast Log #2)

2026-06-25 15:35:00 · Production

I built a voice AI bot called kit that runs entirely on my own machine (M1 Max), free, with zero external APIs. A normal voice bot is a single line: finish listening, then think, then reply. kit abandons that and runs listening, thinking, backchanneling, deep reasoning, and speaking in parallel, with a single Arbiter collapsing everything into one verdict. A technical record written in full — real function names, real config values, and honest limits.

What to Eat the Day Before and on Exam Day — Choosing by Digestion and Mood So You Don't Lose Your Edge

2026-06-22 22:50:00 · 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.

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.

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.

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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