The Japanese TeX Development Community submitted an update to the japanese package, which has now been renamed to babel-japanese . Version: 2.0 2016-12-16 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Babel support for Japanese Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Support for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX. * Fix a typo in \postpartname. * Add Japanese \proofname and \glossaryname. * Suppress nopatterns warning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel-japanese The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/japanese/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .