The primary component of culture of every people is a language culture, in that the use of language in one or another spheres of life one or another people, features of views, is included into language, the language pictures of the world of and other In a book are considered different aspects of language culture of Japan of the last decades. The walkthrough of Japanese works is given also on corresponding subjects. Problems are especially considered, in particular roles of English in Japan and borrowing from this language, forms of politeness, features of woman speech in Japan, hieroglyphs and other types of the Japanese written language. A book continues the series of researches of В. М. Алпатова, begun by a monograph "Japan, : language and society" (1988), but the changes of recent time are reflected in her, for example, related to computerization.An electronic version of this edition is property of publishing house, and her distribution without the consent of publishing house is forbidden.