JLPT Photo Size — Make a 480 × 640 px Photo for MyJLPT

For the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test in Japan you register online through MyJLPT, and the face photo is a file you upload. The JLPT photo size JEES will register is 480 × 640 pixels or more in portrait 3:4 — smaller cannot be registered — as a JPEG of up to 5 MB, taken within the past 6 months. Upload a photo you have and IDPhotoBy crops and resizes it to that, plus a 30 × 40 mm print.

JEES — Japan Educational Exchanges and Services — operates the JLPT inside Japan, runs MyJLPT, and publishes these photo requirements.

JEES prints it on your test voucher, your Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency and your Certificate of Result and Scores.

Two sentences of JEES's own English decide whether your JLPT picture registers:

“The amount of your photograph size is 480×640 pixels resolution or more.”

“You cannot register if the size is smaller than this, and the file type must be JPEG and the file size should be up to 5 MB.”

So 480 × 640 is a minimum, not a target — check your file's pixel dimensions, not how it looks on screen.

• Upload a photo you already have. A smartphone photo is fine if your face is sharp, evenly lit and clearly identifiable against a plain wall.
• IDPhotoBy crops and resizes it to a 480 × 640 px JPEG for the MyJLPT upload, plus a 30 × 40 mm print-ready version and a printable sheet.
• Your head is framed 28–32 mm from chin to crown in that print — IDPhotoBy's framing, not a JEES figure.

IDPhotoBy does not retouch, beautify or AI-edit your face: only framing and size are prepared, and the result comes out plain, on a white background.

Three things people expect in a photo spec are not in the JEES rules here, and we would rather say so than invent them.

• No background colour. JEES asks for “no background” — a plain photo, not a snapshot with scenery — and never names white, grey or blue. IDPhotoBy's white background satisfies that, but the white is our output, not a JEES rule.
• No head size number — only a face too small or too large on the rejected list.
• No expression rule.

JEES publishes its own examples of photos that will not do: a face too small, too large, off-centre or turned sideways; a picture of a passport or residence card instead of you; more than one person; frames over the eyes or glare off the glasses; a mask, earphones, a fringe over the face, or a hand across it; red eyes, a blurred or too-dark image, a distorted one, or one retouched with an app.

The photo also cannot be changed once the application period closes; if unclear, JEES's replacement procedure asks for a printed photo, 4 cm high by 3 cm wide, by post — the same 30 × 40 mm print IDPhotoBy gives you.

All of the above is the rule for the test in Japan. Sitting the JLPT elsewhere, you do not use MyJLPT: the local host institution in your city handles registration, and JEES notes details may differ by country or area.

Check the official application portal before submitting.