How to correctly display Japanese fonts on Xiaomi/Redmi/POCO smartphones

On Android smartphones and tablets, if the language is set to a language other than Japanese, Japanese (especially Kanji) is not displayed correctly and is displayed in Chinese style (Hanji).

It’s not good for learning Japanese, so here’s how to fix it on Xiaomi branded devices.

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Method 1:

1. Sign in to Mi account from Settings
2. Enable Developer Options

[https://xiaomiui.net/how-to-enable-developer-options-on-xiaomi-devices-2504/](https://xiaomiui.net/how-to-enable-developer-options-on-xiaomi-devices-2504/)

3. Enable USB Debugging and USB Debugging (Security)

[https://xiaomiui.net/how-to-enable-usb-debugging-on-xiaomi-devices-2505/](https://xiaomiui.net/how-to-enable-usb-debugging-on-xiaomi-devices-2505/)

4. Setup adb

[https://xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/](https://xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/)

5. Open PowerShell (if you are using Windows) and run these commands:

adb shell
settings put system system_locales en-US,ja-JP

6. Reboot the device

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The command in 5. sets system languages to English (US) and Japanese.

If you want to make something other than English your main language, run

adb shell
settings get system system_locales

to get your current language code, and replace “en-US” of 5. command and run it.

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Method 2:

If your device supports theme fonts, you can fix it by simply applying Japanese fonts.

Search “McMejiro”, “Mejiro Rounded” or “UDon Nodo GothicP” in font section of the theme store app and apply it.