I want to switch the language of my store

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I would like to switch my Shopify store into Japanese and English language. Are there any ways to do that?

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Hi @robbie89 ,

Nick here from Shopify.

Although Shopify themes are in English, some themes have more than one language option. These themes include translations of all of the text content in your online store, such as contact information and cart and checkout information.

For themes that include multiple languages, you can simply change the theme language. If your theme doesn’t have the language that you want, then you can create the translations yourself.

To create the translations yourself, you can take the following steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.

  2. For your published theme, click the Actions drop-down menu and select Edit languages.

  3. Click Change theme language.

  4. From the Language drop-down menu, select Other languages.

  5. Choose from the second and third drop-down menus as follows:

    • Language: Choose a language.
    • Region: Choose a specific region (if applicable), All to select all regional variations, or Custom to create a custom name for the language version that you’re creating.

  6. Click Save.

  7. Using the language editor, enter translations for your theme text. Your changes are saved automatically.

  8. To make sure that you have created complete translations for all of your theme’s text content, you can search for incomplete translations.

You can read more on translating Shopify themes from the help guide Shopify has for this here.

Something to remember is that you can have one language active on your online store. You can also use an app to help you with this. I personally like the Langify app but there are others in the Shopify App Store too.

Hope this helps and answers your question.

Thanks, Nick