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Japan Standard Time (JST)

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Japan Standard Time is nine hours ahead of UTC and applies across the whole country. Japan has not observed daylight saving since the early 1950s.

Abbreviation: JST
UTC offset: +09:00
Daylight saving: Never changesSame offset all year

Korea Standard Time (KST) uses the same UTC+09:00 offset, so Japan and South Korea always read the same clock.

Where JST is used

All of Japan

Tokyo · Osaka · Kyoto · Sapporo

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Tokyo Asia/Tokyo
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