: Google’s standard universal font designed to be visually harmonious across multiple languages, including Japanese.

Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro is a reliable, high-quality professional Japanese sans-serif that excels at legibility and neutrality. It’s a top choice for UI, editorial, and corporate use when licensing and platform availability are handled; for open-web projects, pair it with free alternatives like Noto Sans JP for consistent results.

Instead, embrace the open-source ecosystem. Use for production websites. Use the system-font stack for internal Apple-centric projects. And rest easy knowing you are building legally, efficiently, and accessibly.

If you want to use for Mac users while providing fallbacks for others, use a CSS font-family stack like this in Google Web Designer or your code: Zen Kaku Gothic Antique - Google Fonts

Roboto does not support Japanese Kanji. However, if you are building a bilingual site (English + Japanese), you might try to pair Hiragino (JP) with Roboto (Latin). But since you can't host Hiragino, you can use Noto Sans JP for Japanese and Roboto for English. The stylistic overlap is excellent.