Is it hard to create a Japanese website looks cool ?

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The problem of creating a Japanese website is mainly language differences. English has only one character which is the alphabet, but Japanese has 3 types of characters which is “Kanji” “Hiragana” “Katakana”. It makes it difficult to design especially the catch copy area.

Because these 3 characters sizes are different. For example “概” and “ゃ”. You might think we can resize but “や” or “ゃ” are different characters for use. Now, you can see clearly how much difference they have. That is why it is hard work to make a great balance of the design.

Additionally, the Japanese language uses a paragraph very often. We do not normally write many sentences in the same paragraph as hard to read. According to the Sanseido(三省堂) which is one of the famous and old Japanese publishing companies known for publishing dictionaries and textbooks.

- It should be less than 5 sentences in one paragraph.
- It should be less than 50 words in one sentence.

If not, it could be hard to read. So we use paragraphs very frequently.

That is why the Japanese website could be hard to make a good balance of the design more than English. Therefore, many Japanese websites use English for the menu. However, sometimes it is not great for the user-friendly, because still many Japanese cannot read English especially, for the old ages.

The solution for this problem does not have logical solutions, although there is a common idea of the solution which uses English and Japanese same time.