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Yahoo Japan

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A specialized crawler used by Yahoo! JAPAN Ads to verify landing page content and ensure compliance with advertising policies. Operated by LY Corporation.

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Assessment
Advertising & Marketing
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Yahoo Japan?

The Y!J-BRU/VSIDX bot is operated by LY Corporation as part of the Yahoo! JAPAN advertising ecosystem. It systematically visits URLs associated with advertising campaigns to analyze page content, ensuring that the destination sites align with the advertiser's claims and adhere to the platform's strict advertising guidelines. By performing these automated checks, the bot helps maintain the integrity of the ad network and protects users from misleading or non-compliant content.

Helpful — This bot is essential for advertisers to maintain their ad campaigns and ensure that landing pages meet the quality and policy standards required by the Yahoo! JAPAN advertising platform.

Identification

Bot name
Yahoo Japan
Operator
LY Corporation
Category
Advertising & Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
yahoo-japan
User-agent patterns
Y!J-ASRY!J-BRJ/YATS crawlerY!J-BRU/VSIDXY!J-BRWY!J-BRY/YATSH crawlerY!J-BRZ/YATSHA crawlerY!J-B|YJ-SADY!J-MMP/dscvY!J-WSCYJ-SAD
User-agent strings
Y!J-BRU/VSIDX
Y!J-BRW
Y!J-ASR
Y!J-MMP/dscv
Y!J-WSC
Y!J-BRJ/YATS crawler
Y!J-BRY/YATSH crawler
Y!J-BRZ/YATSHA crawler
YJ-SAD
Main use cases
Ad landing page verificationPolicy compliance checkingAd quality assessment

Why it crawls your site

This crawler operates to facilitate the review process for Yahoo! JAPAN Ads, allowing the platform to automatically validate that landing pages are functional and relevant to the ads being displayed. It crawls websites to extract metadata and content, which are then evaluated against internal policy databases to determine ad eligibility. Site owners can verify the legitimacy of this traffic by checking that the requests originate from IP addresses associated with LY Corporation's verified infrastructure.

Block or allow Yahoo Japan

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Y!J-ASR in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Yahoo Japan from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Y!J-ASR
Disallow: /

# Allow Yahoo Japan full access
User-agent: Y!J-ASR
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Y!J-ASR. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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From the community

Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.

Related bots

Other crawlers operated by LY Corporation.

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Links & references

LY Corporation documentation
yahoo.jp/3BSZgF
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Cloudflare Radar: Yahoo Japan
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/yahoo-japan
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 21, 2026