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+# Japanese translations for PROJECT.
+# Copyright (C) 2017 ORGANIZATION
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PROJECT project.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2017.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2017-04-06 06:29+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2017-04-06 05:18+0100\n"
+"Last-Translator: Tobenna Peter, Igwe<ptigwe@gmail.com>\n"
+"Language: ja\n"
+"Language-Team: ja <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: Babel 2.3.4\n"
+
+#: templates/archives.html:3
+msgid "Archives"
+msgstr "アーカイブ"
+
+#: templates/archives.html:18
+#, python-format
+msgid "Archives for %(name)s"
+msgstr "%(name)s のアーカイブ"
+
+#: templates/article.html:108 templates/index.html:61
+msgid "Posted by"
+msgstr "投稿者"
+
+#: templates/article.html:112 templates/index.html:65
+msgid "on"
+msgstr "日付"
+
+#: templates/article.html:115
+#, python-format
+msgid "Updated on %(moddate)s"
+msgstr "更新日 %(moddate)s"
+
+#: templates/article.html:134
+msgid "tags"
+msgstr "タグ"
+
+#: templates/article.html:155
+msgid "Please enable JavaScript to view the comments."
+msgstr "コメントを読み書きのため、JavaScriptを有効にしてください。"
+
+#: templates/author.html:3 templates/author.html:7 templates/author.html:27
+#: templates/authors.html:18
+#, python-format
+msgid "Articles by %(name)s"
+msgstr "%(name)s の記事"
+
+#: templates/authors.html:3
+msgid "Authors"
+msgstr "作者"
+
+#: templates/categories.html:3 templates/categories.html:18
+msgid "Categories"
+msgstr "カテゴリー"
+
+#: templates/category.html:3 templates/category.html:18
+#, python-format
+msgid "Articles in the %(category)s category"
+msgstr "%(category)s カテゴリーの記事"
+
+#: templates/pagination.html:7
+msgid "Older Posts"
+msgstr "古い"
+
+#: templates/pagination.html:10
+msgid "Newest Posts"
+msgstr "新しい"
+
+#: templates/period_archives.html:3 templates/period_archives.html:18
+#, python-format
+msgid "Archives for %(period)s"
+msgstr "%(period)s のアーカイブ"
+
+#: templates/tag.html:2
+#, python-format
+msgid "Tag %(tag)s"
+msgstr "%(tag)s タグ"
+
+#: templates/tags.html:3 templates/tags.html:18
+msgid "Tags"
+msgstr "タグ"
+
+#: templates/tags.html:27
+#, python-format
+msgid "Tags for %(sitename)s"
+msgstr "%(sitename)s のタグ"