Japanese

This page offers basic guidance on typesetting a LaTeX document in the Japanese language using the Japanese script.

Support with the traditional way (ldf)

The Japanese language is supported in babel in the ‘classical’ way based on a ldf file. See babel-japanese for further details.

Support with ini locale file

Here is a minimal sample file with japanese as the main language, with luatex.

\documentclass[japanese]{article}

\usepackage[provide=*]{babel}

\babelfont{rm}[Renderer=Harfbuzz]{Harano Aji Mincho}

\begin{document}

Local name $=$ 日本語

Chapter $=$ \chaptername

Today $=$ \today

\end{document}