JapanSelling on amazon.co.jp
Japanese mixes three scripts, writes without spaces between words and has two widths of every Latin letter and digit, and a title shows each of those choices.
- Listing language
- Japanese
- ja-JP
- Prices in
- JPY
- Not a euro market
- Amazon marketplace ID
- A1VC38T7YXB528
- Amazon's published identifier
What has to change
- Many product names are katakana loanwords from English. A digital kitchen scale is usually a "デジタルキッチンスケール", even though the native word "はかり" exists.
- Japanese is written without spaces between words, so word boundaries come from the scripts themselves and not from the space bar.
- Letters and digits come in full width and half width: "５ｋｇ" and "5kg" look alike and are different text. Prices are in yen, with no decimals.
What a translator gets wrong
Full width digits and letters from a Japanese keyboard. "５ｋｇ" looks right on screen and is not the same text as "5kg".
The same title, both ways
Before
Nordhaus Digitale Küchenwaage 5 kg, Edelstahl
On amazon.co.jp
Nordhaus デジタル キッチンスケール 5kg ステンレス製
Three katakana loanwords carry the title, "製" marks what it is made of, and "5kg" is in half width characters.
Written as an illustration of the difference. For a real before and after from the engine, see the home page.
What every amazon.co.jp listing is checked for
Title within 75 characters
Written to the budget before a word is set down, so it is never cut or replaced by Amazon.
Search terms within 249 bytes
Counted in bytes, the way Amazon counts them, and trimmed between characters.
Actually in Japanese
A listing that came back in the source language, or half in it, is held back for you.
One upload file for amazon.co.jp
Tab separated, in the shape Seller Central expects, uploaded by you in your own account.
Every other marketplace
Write your catalogue for Japan in one run.
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