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+- Add Japanese (ja) to the language picker, with year-first dates, Japanese
+  counters, unit words joined to their numbers (5分前, 1時間5分) and CJK label
+  rules for Japanese text. Based on translations by @abiyeenzo (#913)
+  (German, @gekh, #1478).