Concept
Passing and Growing
From passing school exams to professional qualifications, and on to picking up hobbies and skills, this is a platform for getting better at every stage of life. We focus on building an environment where you can grow steadily at your own pace.
A Daily Break and Serious Study
From taking a break when you're tired of work or study to building real skills, we cover a wide range of needs — from making use of short moments each day to deeply absorbing experiences.
Simple and Approachable Design
No complicated sign-up. You can start the moment you feel like it. We aim for a simple, easy-to-understand design that respects your time and your will to learn.
Main Services
games.passed.jp
A place to switch gears when you want a short break in your day. a set of original free games you can play in your browser when you're tired from work or study, or just want to reset. There's no complicated sign-up — you can start the moment you feel like it. Inside a game you can sink into, you can refresh yourself and get back to your own pace. From filling a short break to playing something you can dive deep into, it's built to fit a range of needs.
A-English Exams EnglishPassed-Z
A free English problem set for learners aiming to pass an English exam. We've prepared questions across a range of formats and levels — TOEIC, Eiken, university entrance exams, business English, and more. No sign-up, so you can start studying right away, and you can go over questions you don't understand as many times as you need. From beginner to advanced, it's a place where you can feel your English steadily growing at your own pace.
Please Watch
An article site where we introduce manga, anime, films, and other entertainment we'd love you to watch or read. We write from our own angle, from the appeal of talked-about titles to the highlights of hidden gems that aren't yet widely known. Every article is free to read, so you can lightly find your next favorite work. To watch or read the works themselves, please use the relevant streaming services or bookstores.
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 centered on Splatoon 2, also covering popular games like Fortnite and Monster Hunter, delivering ways to improve and positioning tips in an easy-to-follow, calm commentary style. Just as golf has lesson pros, games too have the fun of being taught and getting better — from that idea, we've built up videos that go beyond just showing play to dig into how you can actually improve. The joy of getting better connects people across generations and walks of life. We hope it becomes a reason for parents and children, and friends, to spend time getting better together.
Uncut
On Steam, countless hidden gems sink into the sea of search results without ever reaching ten reviews. Uncut is a curation-style discovery platform that carefully picks such overlooked Japanese games by taste and genre and introduces them to players abroad. It's designed not as a place where we make games for you to play, but as a place to meet others' masterpieces that the world hasn't found yet. Centered on genres for the discerning — deckbuilding roguelikes, turn-based tactics, logic puzzles — we put the appeal of each hidden Japanese game into words and carry it across borders, one title at a time. We offer the very experience of finding a game before you play it, as a discovery channel bringing overlooked Japanese games to the world.
About the Operator
passed.jp is built by a maker who came up through a game development school, started out as a server-side engineer, and has shipped around fifteen mobile games. That's more than ten years of making things — and the work is still going. On Steam we keep building our own title, Bit Oz -Wonder Crusher-, to this day, repeating the cycle of building, shipping, and fixing with our own hands.
Why would someone who has spent their life making games put exam problem sets, little games for a break, and recommendations for other people's work all in one portal? Because we see a single line running through them. Passing an exam and getting better at a hobby are, at heart, the same thing happening: "something you couldn't do yesterday, you can do today." That small, repeated sense of progress is what moves a person forward — a feeling we've watched play out again and again in game development, and the foundation under every one of these services. And behind that cheering is one premise: we count ourselves among the people who will be studying for the rest of their lives. It's precisely because we keep learning that we can wholeheartedly cheer on someone who is, right now, trying to learn something.
By "passing," we don't mean only clearing an exam. Exams and qualifications are just the entrance; what lies beyond them is becoming someone society can rely on. More than the single result of a pass or a fail, we think the real meaning of "passing" is what you take in along the way there.
We want learners to move as efficiently as they can. If there's know-how that lets you take the easy road, there's no need for a detour. But we don't want it to end at easy. Along the right path, we want you to build strength that becomes flesh and blood — the staying power to hold your ground in a field, together with the inventive strength to think with your own head and create something. The reason we write our articles as each step paired with why it works comes from this belief. Memorizing the steps alone won't carry over to new situations; only once the reasons settle in do they truly become your own.
What we care about as an attitude is making things carefully, and not running from the things that don't show results right away. We have no intention of lining up flashy achievements, nor of promising what we cannot promise. Right now, in order to devote ourselves day and night to creating things that make people go "wow," we keep using AI and business automation to speed up every kind of task and free up time for creation.
passed.jp is run by Amazing engine株式会社 (founded in 2015). We put the revenue from Google AdSense toward running costs, and we keep ads to a level that doesn't get in the way of your experience.
For thoughts or requests about the portal or any of its services, please use the contact page.