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The Japan Translation Federation’s JTF Japanese Style Guide for Translators has 12 mechanical rules that mehen checks on Japanese-tagged Markdown blocks.

Rules

#CheckSeverity
1keitai/jōtai consistency (である / です・ます)warn
2 / used as punctuationinfo
3Stick to Jōyō kanji (flag hyōgai)warn
4Okurigana per official rulesinfo
5Trailing long-vowel mark on katakana compound endings (コンピューター not コンピュータ)warn
6Long katakana compounds broken with or half-width spaceinfo
7Kanji / hiragana / katakana full-widtherror
8Digits and Latin alphabet half-widthwarn
9Symbols full-widthinfo
10No space between full-width and half-widthinfo
11., ,, spaces half-widthinfo
12Standardize unit notationinfo

How violations surface

Each violation contributes to:
  • The document’s jtf_violation_density (input to Japanese WQS).
  • A list of (line, column, rule, message) flags reported in the JSON output.
  • Per-rule callouts in the PR comment.

References

See also