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Magento 2 Japanese Language Pack is totally free translation guide for every eCommerce stores. The language package is a critical documentation if you want to translate from English to Japanese. As you can see, although English has been becoming the most popular language in the world, presenting native language in each country is still a must. Not only does this create good impression from the audience but you will not have any difficulty in the exchange.

Overview

Language Package Process
Install Japanese Language Pack
How to active Japanese language pack
How to contribute
Supported Magento versions
Notes
Language package authors

1. Language Package Process

This is status of Japanese Language Pack, you can see how many percentage of this project has been done.

It is not fully translated? Feel free to contribute:

On Crowdin: It takes time to approve your contribution by Magento team.
On Github: It's faster, our team will approve it after you send pull request.

Find other language packs here

2. How to Install Japanese Language Pack

There are 3 different methods to install this language pack.

✓ Method #1. Composer method (Recommend)

Install the Japanese language pack via composer is never easier.

Install Japanese pack:

With Marketing Automation (recommend):

composer require mageplaza/magento-2-japanese-language-pack:dev-master mageplaza/module-smtp 
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ja_JP
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Without Marketing Automation:

composer require mageplaza/magento-2-japanese-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ja_JP
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Update Japanese pack:

composer update mageplaza/magento-2-japanese-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ja_JP
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Authentication required (If any)

If you have not added this authentication, you can follow this guide

Or use these keys:

Public Key: c7af1bfc9352e9c986637eec85ed53af
Private Key: 17e1b72ea5f0b23e9dbfb1f68dc12b53

✓ Method #2. Copy & Paste method (Not recommended)

This method suitable for non-technical people such as merchants. Just download the package then flush cache.

Overview

Step 1: Download the Japanese language pack
Step 2: Unzip Japanese pack
Step 3: Flush Magento 2 Cache

Step 1 : Download the Japanese language pack

You can download the language pack from above link

Step 2: Unzip Japanese pack

Unzip the Japanese language pack to Magento 2 root folder. In this guide, we extract to /var/www/html/ Your Magento 2 root folder can be: /home/account_name/yourstore.com/public_html/

unzip master.zip app/i18n/Mageplaza/

Rename folder magento-2-japanese-language-pack to ja_jp.

You also can unzip locally and upload them to Magento 2 root folder.

Step 3: Flush Magento 2 Cache

Follow this guide to Flush Cache on your Magento 2 store

✓ Method #3. Download and install manually (Not recommended)

To download and install Japanese pack manually, you have to access to your server via FTP or SFTP.

Step 1: Download the package

Step 1: Unzip and upload

Unzip the compressed file and upload file master.zip into app/i18n/Mageplaza/ja_jp/

See this screenshot:

This language pack code is: ja_jp

Step 2: Flush cache

Follow this guide to Flush Cache on your Magento 2 store

3. How to Active the Japanese language pack

Now time to active the Japanese language pack for your Magento 2 store. From Magento 2 admin panel, navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Locale Options

4. How to contribute

Contribute to this language at :

On Crowdin: It takes time to approve your contribution by Magento team.
On Github: It's faster, our team will approve it after you send pull request.

5. Supported Magento versions

It supports all Magento 2 versions include Magento 2 open-source (Community), Magento 2 Commerce (EE), Magento Cloud, Magento B2B, Magento MSI.

Magento v2.0.x
Magento v2.1.x
Magento v2.2.x
Magento v2.3.x
Magento v2.4.x

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