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Shopping translated into Japanese — every core department is now bilingual

Eighteenth update — a milestone: every core department a visitor actually plans a trip around is now genuinely readable in Japanese.

🕓 3 min read 🔄 Updated August 2026

The Shopping department hub and three core guides are now fully written in Japanese:

Where this leaves Japanese coverage

That's seven full departments now translated — Plan, Stay, Neighborhoods, Do, Food, Culture, and Shopping — 31 Japanese pages live, all with fully localized navigation and chrome around them. News and About remain English-only, a deliberate choice since they matter less to someone reading in Japanese.

Next up: with the pattern proven across seven departments in one language, the next big lever is starting the same full-department treatment for a second language — likely Korean or Simplified Chinese, given visitor volume.

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