{"id":107039,"date":"2023-07-24T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/japanese-email-etiquette-format\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:13:14","slug":"japanese-email-etiquette-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/japanese\/japanese-email-etiquette-format\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Guide to Japanese Email Etiquette and Format"},"content":{"rendered":"

“\u2026 I think that your Japanese is good enough to understand how you should address a professor. Please reword this email before I forward it to the department head.”<\/p>\n

I was by no means a beginner<\/a>, so how could I fail at sending a simple email after all this time?<\/p>\n

I discovered that the problem wasn’t due to my knowledge of the Japanese language\u2014it was my understanding of Japanese culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s an entire culture and etiquette surrounding digital correspondence in Japanese,<\/strong> so if you plan to live, study or even just make some acquaintances in Japan, you’ll need to know the basic Japanese email format.<\/p>\n

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Proper Japanese Email Format<\/h2>\n

There’s definitely a proper format for Japanese emails, and if you\u2019re a native English speaker, it\u2019s probably a bit different than what you\u2019re used to.<\/p>\n

So, you do have to learn it if you want to succeed at Japanese email etiquette. The good news is that it\u2019s quite straightforward and a lot of it is just putting the right phrases in the right places.<\/p>\n

A proper email looks something like this:<\/p>\n