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Books available in Japanese
Share familiar words in your family’s language. Choose first words, coloring, or a story to read together. See the available editions and find your next book.
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Explore 2 Japanese books available now
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Start on paper: point, name, and share the words together. When your child is ready, explore the linked activities with a grown-up, then find the words in the book again.
Showing 2 first-word books in Japanese.
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Baby's First Farm Animals
Ages 0–3 · Paperback picture book
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Baby's First Vehicle
Ages 0–3 · Paperback picture book
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English + Japanese
A paperback collection with one word and illustration per learning page. Open a book together without printing individual pages.
Books are purchased separately. Amazon shows current prices, delivery, and availability.
On paper and online
Keep practising Japanese together
Bring book time into everyday play with related stories, games, and real sample pages. Everything here is free to explore together.
Play with Japanese book words
Use pictures, listening, memory, and matching to meet the same words in a different way.
Choose a game →Interactive family treeMeet the family in Japanese
Tap a relative and keep the family connection visible while the words change.
Learn family words →Interactive storyPlay the Language Quest in Japanese
Choose the route, hear the story, and collect useful words along the way.
Start the free quest →Read-aloud storySay goodnight in Japanese
Quiet Night on the Farm includes a built-in language selector for its repeated goodnight phrases.
Read free →Parent guideJapanese for families: three scripts and which one a toddler meets first
Japanese is written with hiragana, katakana and kanji at once. What each one does, why children's books look different from adult ones, and what to look for in a bilingual edition.
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Complete catalog
2 live editions
Picture books
Picture bookEnglish
JapaneseBaby's First Farm Animals
赤ちゃんの初めての農場の動物
Friendly farm friends for first words and shared looking.
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JapaneseBaby's First Vehicle
赤ちゃんの初めての乗り物
Cars, buses, diggers, and more to point at and name together.
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A language landscape
Meet Japanese
Japanese is a Japonic language used in Japan and Japanese-speaking communities around the world.
A playful storybook scene inspired by a Japanese spring garden.
- Estimated speakers
- About 125.6 millionRounded total of first- and second-language speakers in Ethnologue's 2025 comparison.
- Language family
- The Japonic language family
- Where families speak it
- Japan and communities abroad
- Writing
- Kanji together with the hiragana and katakana syllabaries
Try this togetherNotice which marks look curvy and which look more angular.
Speaker estimate: Ethnologue 2025 (opens in a new tab)
Language facts: Encyclopaedia Britannica (opens in a new tab)
One language, connected across the site
Use Japanese across Flori & Luna
Free Japanese games
Reuse book words through pictures, listening, memory, and gentle matching games.
Explore →Interactive family wordsMeet the family in Japanese
Tap relatives and follow the branch from Flori while the family words change language.
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Where is Japanese used?
Japanese is centered in Japan and is also spoken by communities around the world.
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Japan
Japanese is the country's principal language.Selected places—not a census map. A highlighted country does not mean everyone there speaks Japanese. Boundaries are simplified for learning and are not a political boundary reference. Made with Natural Earth (opens in a new tab).
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Where Japanese fits
This simplified learning tree shows only the 19 languages currently in the Flori & Luna catalog. It groups related languages; it does not mean one modern sibling language came from another.