Japanese TeX Development Community submitted an update to the babel-japanese package. Version number: 2.1 2017-02-05 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Babel support for Japanese Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add new feature \languageattribute{japanese}{kansujitoday}. This changes the numeric notation of \today to Chinese numerals (called "kansuji") when used in vertical writings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/japanese More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel-japanese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .