AI interviews in Japanese.
Updated 6 November 2026
AI Interview Agents runs spoken first-round interviews in Japanese. The AI interviewer, Keita, greets the candidate, asks questions and follows up on each answer in Japanese, in real time, in the candidate's browser with no app to install. The transcript is kept in Japanese, and a person on your team reads the scored report and decides.
This page lists the voice for Japanese, quotes two lines the interviewer says in Japanese, and says what language the report is in and what stays in English.
Which platform handles voice interviews in Japanese with real-time follow-ups?
AI Interview Agents does. A real-time voice interview needs three parts working in Japanese: speech recognition that hears the answer, a model that writes the next question from what the candidate said, and a voice that speaks it. Speech recognition and the voice both come from Microsoft Azure and are set to Japanese as spoken in Japan. The model writes each follow-up in Japanese from the candidate's last answer, so a short or vague answer gets a probing question instead of the next item on a list.
Other vendors publish their own language lists, and a language on a list does not always mean the spoken interview runs in it. Ask each vendor three questions: does the spoken interview itself run in Japanese, or only the screens; does it ask follow-up questions in Japanese; and what language is the scored report in. Our comparison of AI interview tools covers the other differences.
Which form of Japanese does the interviewer speak?
There is one choice: Japanese (Japan). The interviewer is called Keita, said as 圭太 in the interview.
What does the candidate hear in Japanese?
The interviewer greets the candidate, asks its questions, follows up and closes the interview in Japanese, in plain, professional wording. Candidates often mix in English words for workplace terms, such as project, team or deadline, and the interviewer keeps those words the way the candidate used them instead of forcing a translation. It does not guess the candidate's gender from their name. The buttons and on-screen instructions in the interview room are shown in Japanese too.
Most of what the interviewer says is written live from the role and the candidate's answers. A few lines are fixed. Here are two of them in Japanese (Japan), word for word, with the English they were written from:
- When it rephrases a question: "失礼しました。言い換えますので、最後のポイントについてもう少し詳しくお聞かせいただけますか。" In English: "Sorry, let me rephrase that. Could you tell me a bit more about your last point?"
- When it closes the interview: "本日はお時間をいただき、改めてありがとうございます、Mariaさん。チームより近日中にご連絡いたします。それでは、面接はここまでといたします。" In English: "Thanks again for your time today, Maria. The team will be in touch shortly. We can wrap up here."
On 22 October 2026 the fixed lines were spoken by the Japanese voices, transcribed back and compared with the written text. What came back was close to the written text.
What language is the report in for Japanese interviews?
The transcript stays in Japanese. The scored report is written in English, so a recruiter who does not speak Japanese can read it, unless the recruiter's dashboard is set to German, French, Spanish, Swedish or Italian, in which case the report follows the dashboard.
The online report shows the candidate's words in Japanese. The PDF download prints Western European characters only, so it replaces Japanese text it cannot print with a note that points to the online report.
Answer highlight clips, the short videos of a candidate's best answers, are made for English, Hindi and Modern Standard Arabic interviews only, so Japanese interviews have no clips.
What stays in English for Japanese interviews?
- The WhatsApp invitation, which is sent for English interviews only. Japanese interviews are sent by email, and the email is written in Japanese.
- The recruiter dashboard, which is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.
- The printed QR code poster for a role's hiring link.
- Phone screening calls, which do not run in Japanese. The Japanese interview runs in the browser, on a phone or a computer.
How do you set up an interview in Japanese?
- Create a role. In the interview language list, type Japanese and pick Japanese (Japan).
- Add your own questions, or let the product write them from the job description. It writes them in Japanese.
- Invite candidates by email. They open the link in the browser on a phone or a computer, with no app and no account.
- Read the transcript and the scored report, then decide who moves on. The interviewer does not decide.
Before you invite candidates, take one test interview yourself or ask a colleague who speaks Japanese to take it. If anything sounds wrong, write to contact@aiinterviewagents.com. The full list of languages is on interview languages.
You can try it on the free plan. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.