How to publish a Japanese Book?

Looking to publish a Japanese Book? Japanese (日本語, Nihongo,) is spoken natively by around 128 million people, largely by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the country’s only national language. The Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language family includes Japanese. Many attempts have been made to group the Japonic languages with other families, including the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these suggestions have achieved broad acceptance.

It is largely spoken throughout the Japanese archipelago; however, there are over 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad, mostly in North and South America, who speak Japanese to varied degrees. Since the mid-twentieth century, only Japan has utilized Japanese as a first or second language.

The country’s terrain, which includes high mountain peaks, deep valleys, and little isolated islands, has encouraged the spread of numerous dialects throughout the archipelago. Different dialects are frequently mutually incomprehensible; for example, the majority of Honshu residents do not understand the Kagoshima dialect of Kyushu. Similarly, most people in metropolitan Tokyo and throughout western Japan do not understand northern dialect speakers from locations like Aomori and Akita. Dialectologists in Japan agree that a large dialect barrier distinguishes Okinawan dialects from the rest of the mainland dialects.

The latter are then classified as Eastern, Western, and Kyushu dialects, or simply Eastern and Western dialects, with the latter containing the Kyushu group. The spread of the kyts-go “common language,” based on the Tokyo dialect, has resulted in linguistic unification. Since its inception in 1886, compulsory education has included an uniform written language. Modern mobility and mass media have also aided in the leveling of dialectal distinctions and have had a significant impact on the increased rate of extinction of local dialects.