Virtual try-on in Japanese

Japanese shoppers and your product pages

Japanese is primarily used in Japan. It is written with a mix of kanji — characters of Chinese origin — and two phonetic syllabaries, hiragana and katakana. Text runs without spaces between words, so line breaking on a product page depends on your theme's typography rather than word boundaries. Fashion and product vocabulary often appears in katakana, the script conventionally used for loanwords. Customer-facing Japanese also carries politeness registers, so the tone of any microcopy around a try-on button deserves the same care as your product descriptions.

What Looksy's language support covers

Japanese appears in the 47-language list enumerated on Looksy's App Store listing. What the listing does not publish is how deep that translation runs — whether it covers the shopper-facing try-on interface, the merchant dashboard, or both. Before you promote try-on to Japanese-speaking customers, install on the Free plan and walk the shopper flow yourself in Japanese; unlimited try-ons make that test cost nothing. The core of the feature is a generated image of the shopper wearing the product, and a picture needs no translation.

Setting up for Japanese-speaking shoppers

Set Japanese as a store language in Shopify's admin under Settings, then Languages, so your theme serves Japanese-speaking visitors. Looksy installs as a theme app extension — you add its block in the theme editor without touching theme code, and uninstalling leaves nothing behind. Then test: run try-ons on the Free plan, check that kanji and kana render cleanly in and around the widget in your theme's fonts, and confirm buttons and notices break lines sensibly, since Japanese text gives the browser no spaces to wrap on.

The try-on flow in any language

The shopper flow Looksy publishes is simple in any language: upload one photo, and the try-on result appears on the product page in about 20 seconds — no app download, no account, no camera permission. Shoppers can retry the render, leave feedback, and download or share the image. Pricing is usage-based through Shopify billing with no contracts: a Free plan with Looksy branding, Starter at $14.99 per month, Growth at $29, and Scale at $79, the tier that adds realtime video try-on alongside photo credits.

Sources: the public Shopify App Store listing for Looksy, which enumerates all 47 supported languages. Last checked 29 July 2026.