japanproxy.xyz still loads, and that is the confusing part. What answers today is a holding page, not the proxy. The last working version the archive kept is from June 2023.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of japanproxy.xyz is from October 2016 and it holds 16 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
There are several kinds of security utilities out there such as Japan proxy server, VPN and Tor etc.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 2 October 2016.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 12 years ago, and that listing counted 315 clicks through to it. The directory recorded it as United States.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 7 June 2023.
What the name does today
We checked japanproxy.xyz on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers with parked.
What to use instead
Use a list somebody keeps checking rather than a name that used to work. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, and an address that stops answering leaves it instead of sitting there for years. If you already have an address, the proxy checker will tell you whether it still relays anything.
The limits of free are the same everywhere, ours included: the addresses are shared, so the sites that care have seen them before, and there is no session to hold, so logins break part way through.
What this page cannot tell you
Why it stopped is not in the record. A dead name and an archive that runs out show that something ended, not the reason for it, and we will not put a reason in print that the record does not carry.
Our status check is one day from one vantage point, and a site that refuses requests from data centres would look the same as one that is switched off. We will check this page again by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for japanproxy.xyz, first capture 9 February 2015, most recent capture 7 June 2023. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of japanproxy.xyz dated 2 October 2016, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of japanproxy.xyz and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
