The electronic text of the Japanese LDS scriptures is now online on the Church’s scriptures Web site (see churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures?lang=jpn&cid=rdscriptures).
You can also find a link to these online scriptures on the individual LDS.org language materials pages. The online scriptures includes the text of the triple combination (the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price) with footnotes, study helps, maps, photographs, and the ability to mark scriptures. It also includes the Guide to the Scriptures, an alphabetical listing of gospel topics.
This brings the total number of languages on the Church’s scriptures Web site to 19: Cebuano, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, and Tongan.
While having Japanese scriptures online is great, one major improvement I would like to see is having the option to not see the “Furigana” . Currently you can’t copy and paste Japanese Scriptures with a simple Control C, Control V to blogs, facebook, twitter, etc since the Furigana gets copied as well. Very frustrating… In order to share Japanese scriptures online, I still have to type them by hand.
Thanks for the fantastic news! There is a lot of work involved in translating scriptures to another language and it is great to have the LDS scriptures available in electronic form for easy access.
I am learning Japanese, Could you translate 1 nephi 2;2 and explain the symbols?