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Description

Adds a Japanese translation of the project README as README.ja.md.

Spec Kit already has a Simplified Chinese translation (#3740) but no Japanese one, so this follows the same pattern.

New file

  • README.ja.md — a full Japanese translation.
  • README.md — added 日本語(japanese) to the language switcher under the badges.
  • README.zh-CN.md — added 日本語(japanese) to its language switcher as well.

All code blocks, CLI commands, slash-command names, badges, image paths, and link URLs are unchanged — only prose and inline shell comments were translated.

Testing

This is a documentation-only change with no impact on CLI behavior or slash commands, so the checkboxes below don't apply.

  • Tested locally with uv run specify --help — N/A (docs-only change)
  • Ran existing tests with uv sync && uv run pytest — N/A (docs-only change)
  • Tested with a sample project (if applicable) — N/A

Manual verification performed instead:

  • Confirmed every Table of Contents anchor resolves to the correct (translated) heading.
  • Confirmed section count, order, and links match the English README 1:1.

AI Disclosure

  • I did use AI assistance (describe below)

I used Claude Code to produce an initial draft translation, then reviewed and corrected it myself as a native Japanese speaker — rewriting phrasing to read naturally rather than as a literal machine translation, and checking terminology and links against the English source section by section.

Note

If documentation/translation contributions like this aren't something the project wants to take on right now, please feel free to close this — no hard feelings, and thanks for all the work maintaining Spec Kit!

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RKasai127 requested a review from mnriem as a code owner September 12, 2026 11:47
@mnriem mnriem added the triage-nice-to-have Verdict: evidence-backed fix or greenlit feature — land after review label Sep 12, 2026
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