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@@ -63,17 +63,37 @@ conda activate tts
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
-## Language-specific dependencies
+### Language-specific setup
 
-There are language-specific python dependencies. For example, if you will use Chinese voices (see [voices usage](#voices)), please install the requirements `requirements-zh.txt` ... supporting more languages is still a work in progress.
+There are language-specific python dependencies.
+
+For example, if you will use Chinese voices (see [voices usage](#voices)), please install the requirements `requirements-zh.txt` ... supporting more languages is still a work in progress.
 
 ```bash
+# Before using zh-* prefixed voices...
 pip install -r requirements-zh.txt
 
-## then you can use zh-prefixed voices for Chinese texts:
+## then you can use voices for Chinese texts:
 python tts.py -v zf_xiaoni "事实胜于雄辩"
+
+## Before using jp-* prefixed voices...
+pip install -r requirements-jp.txt
+
+## then you can use voices for Japanese texts:
+python tts.py -v jf_alpha "言い習わし"
+
 ```
 
+Please also read the requirements text file for the language you want to use, as there may be additional instructions there. For example, using Japanese you may want to choose a dictionary and initialize a configuration file.
+
+| Language | lang_code | voice prefix | requirements file   |
+| -------- | --------- | ------------ | ------------------- |
+| Chinese  | 'z'       | 'zh'         | requirements-zh.txt |
+| Japanese | 'j'       | 'jp'         | requirements-jp.txt |
+
+> [!Note]
+> You can read more about using different voices in the [Voices](#voices) secton.
+
 ### Intel XPU environmental variables (Optional)
 
 For XPUs, we need to set some environmental variables. I have added a `env.sh` script which will activate the conda environment `tts` and set the environmental variables.
diff --git a/requirements-jp.txt b/requirements-jp.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# for jp
+# ...if you get an error about missing 'mecabrc' file, just create an empty file with the reported name and location
+
+pyopenjtalk
+jaconv
+mojimoji
+mecab-python3
+
+# A dictionary is needed, you may choose to install the lite or full version
+fugashi[unidic-lite]
+# fugashi[unidic]