Government and public statistics
公用文作成の考え方 (Guidelines for Writing Official Documents)
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (Bunka-cho), 2022
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- What it is
- The 2022 guidance from Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs on writing government documents, including the rule for which punctuation marks to use in running text.
- How much weight it carries
- Official government guidance, issued as a manual for public writing rather than a binding statute. It sets the principle for official documents; newspapers and publishers may follow other house styles.
Facts taken from this source
- Japanese government guidance on public writing (2022) says a single document must use one comma style throughout.
“ただし、一つの文書内でどちらかに統一する。” (符号 (punctuation), section 5(1)a)