LTR · Japanese
App Store and Google Play screenshots in Japanese
Japanese is left to right and is written in kana and kanji. App Store Connect files the copy under ja; Play Console files it under ja-JP.
- Language
- Japanese
- App Store Connect code
- ja
- Play Console code
- ja-JP
- Text direction
- LTR — left to right
- Script
- kana and kanji
- Plan
- Free and Pro. Free projects hold up to 3 languages beyond English, one locale per export. Pro includes every supported language and exports them together in one batch.
How long does Japanese copy run?
Running text
10-30% shorter than the English source (width)
Japanese wraps per character rather than per word, so a headline can be narrower than its English source and still need a taller box.
Screenshot headlines
Screenshot copy is a short string, and short strings swing hardest: published figures put a translation of a source under 10 characters at 200-300% of its length, falling to about 130% once the source runs past 70 characters.
Sources: DTP Services Berlin — Text expansion in translation and W3C Internationalization — Text size in translation.
The checker on a real pair
English: Organize the photos you take
Japanese: 毎日撮った写真をまとめて整理できる
Fits as authored. Japanese has no spaces between words, so it wraps per character instead of per word.
Check your own Japanese headline in the free text-fit tool — it opens on Japanese.
Other languages
Localize this language in ScreenCraft
Lay the screens out once, translate the copy into Japanese, and see the same fit rules applied before anything exports — then export the localized set as a ZIP.
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