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November 22, 2005
Last week, we added support for Japanese. As with the
other languages we support,
if you already use Google in Japanese, you should see the user interface and documentation in
Japanese automatically. Otherwise, you can click the Preferences link from the
Google home page and choose Japanese
from the interface list.
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