日本語 · Japanese subtitles
Translate video to Japanese
Add Japanese subtitles to any video: upload it, pick Japanese, and export an MP4 with Japanese captions timed to the speech — or download an Japanese SRT file. Free, with no sign-up and no watermark.
How to add Japanese subtitles to a video
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Upload your video
Drop in an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, or an audio file. The video stays on your device — only the audio is used to hear the speech.
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Choose Japanese
Japanese is preselected when you open the translator from this page. The spoken language is detected automatically.
- 3
Style the captions
Pick a template, font and position. Everything is previewed live on your video.
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Export
Download an MP4 with the Japanese captions burned in, or Japanese SRT and VTT files to upload to YouTube or any platform.
About Japanese subtitles
- Writing system
- Kanji, hiragana and katakana, written without spaces
- Spoken by
- about 125 million people
- Where
- Japan
Tips for great Japanese captions
- Japanese is written without spaces between words, so captions are shown by line rather than word by word.
- Japanese packs a lot of meaning into few characters — keep lines short (around 13–16 characters) for comfortable reading, the convention on Japanese TV.
Frequently asked questions
How do I translate a video to Japanese for free?+
Open the video translator, upload your video, choose Japanese, and press generate. You get Japanese captions timed to the speech, which you can edit and export as an MP4 or an SRT — no account and no watermark.
Can I translate an English video to Japanese?+
Yes — and a video in almost any other language too. The spoken language is detected automatically, then the captions are written in Japanese.
Does it dub the video into Japanese?+
No. It adds Japanese subtitles and keeps the original voice, which is faster, free, and keeps the speaker's real tone.
I already have subtitles — can I translate them to Japanese?+
Yes. Use the SRT translator: drop in your .srt or .vtt file, choose Japanese, and download the translated file with every timestamp unchanged.
Your Japanese captions are one upload away
No sign-up. No watermark. Your video stays on your device. Just better captions, in minutes.
Translate a video to Japanese