Japanese keyword hack illustration: a website showing a clean face to visitors and hidden spam pages to search crawlers

Japanese Keyword Hack: Spot It, Clean It, Purge It From Google

If Google shows Japanese titles and thousands of Japanese pages under your domain, your site has been hit by the Japanese keyword hack, not a translation glitch. A hidden script is generating those pages for search engines only, and they will keep coming back until you remove the code and the backdoor behind it.

The short answer

  • Japanese pages in Google under your domain almost always mean the Japanese keyword hack: a server-side script generating cloaked spam for crawlers.
  • Deleting the visible pages does nothing. Remove the generator, the backdoor and the stolen credentials first, or the spam returns within hours.
  • Don't block spam URLs in robots.txt. Let Googlebot see 404 or 410 Gone, then use Search Console Removals as a temporary stopgap.
  • File a reconsideration request only if Search Console shows a manual action, and only after the site is verifiably clean.

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