Japan Passport from the UK: ignore GOV.UK sizes
Scope lock: this URL is for Japan Passport travel-document photos only — licence and national-ID copy live on their own pages.
Many people in the United Kingdom order a Japan Passport while renewing from abroad, booking a US consular appointment, or submitting an online US form. GOV.UK photo rules do not apply to that file — only Japan specifications on this page do.
This article is scoped to Japan Passport as a Japan travel / passport photo (45 × 45 mm, White). Driving-licence and national-ID wording is not pasted here.
British applicants routinely paste a 35 × 45 mm HMPO-style portrait into a Japan form. That portrait is legal for a UK passport — and wrong for Japan Passport at 45 × 45 mm on White.
Official framing for Japan Passport on FotoPass is 45 × 45 mm with a White background. Treat any other country’s booth print as a different template.
Practical UK workflow: selfie in daylight near a window (avoid yellow tungsten alone), confirm Japan Passport, upload here, then attach the export to the Japan online tool or take it to your London / Belfast / Edinburgh consular packet — not a high-street “UK passport” booth ticket.
35 × 45 mm vs Japan Passport geometry
UK passport guidance is a tall rectangle. Japan Passport needs 45 × 45 mm (exact millimetres above). Phone “perspective” tools cannot invent the missing width legally.
If a UK chemist already printed 35 × 45 mm, leave that print for UK renewals. Generate a separate Japan Passport file on FotoPass for Japan passport filings.
Filing Japan Passport from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
Online Japan passport renewals accept digital photos when the crop matches Japan rules. Embassy / consulate appointments serving UK residents still expect the same 45 × 45 mm standard — bring the newest download, not last year’s holiday snap.
Compress for portal kilobyte caps only after FotoPass has set the biometric frame for Japan Passport.
Japan passport photo — what people search
This page is scoped to Japan Passport only: 45 × 45 mm on a White background. Licence or national-ID crops belong on their own document pages.
Queries such as “Japan passport photo size” and “biometric passport photo” should land here — not on a driving-licence tool with a coincidentally similar millimetre size.
Japan passport note
Japan passport photos follow a strict portrait ratio. This page sets Japan Passport to 45 × 45 mm / White.
UK → Japan passport photo gate
- Form asks for Japan Passport, not a UK passport photo
- Canvas is 45 × 45 mm, not 35 × 45 mm
- Backdrop is White (not cream booth paper)
- No stretched HMPO JPEG
- Neutral expression; glasses policy checked against Japan passport rules
- Selector still shows Japan Passport while the site market is United Kingdom
Treat UK and Japan photo products as two different SKUs — this page only manufactures the Japan Passport passport one.