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IIRC a website for a train company in Japan requires exactly 8 letters as password even now. I can’t remember which though.

• toastal 4y ago
  A lot of Japanese-based services don't let you go past 10 or 12 or 16 characters for some reason.
  • pancrufty 4y ago
    12 characters oughta be enough for everyone
  • cyborgx7 4y ago
    This is actually a problem plaguing old ports of Japanese video games, sometimes even to this day. The reason for this is that Japan uses a mixture of symbols that represent entire syllables (hiragana, katakana) and symbols that represent entire concepts (kanji). So they have a much higher density of information per symbol, at the expense of having a lot more symbols. Then, when the game gets localized, input fields for names and spacing for text displays are way too short for languages written in the latin alphabet. I assume it's a similar cause here.
    • jeroenhd 4y ago
      For passwords this doesn't work, as the Japanese IME requires visual feedback to pick the right characters. As far as I understand, password fields don't support foreign script very well. For other inputs like names you're definitely right, though.