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Japanese YouTube Transcript

Paste a YouTube link to get its transcript in Japanese (日本語). Videos with Japanese captions show them directly; any other video is translated into Japanese, with the original above each line. Free, no sign-up.

How to get a YouTube transcript in Japanese

  1. 1

    Copy the video link

    Any YouTube video, Short, or finished livestream, in Japanese or any other language.

  2. 2

    Paste it above

    If the video has Japanese captions you get them as they are. If not, the transcript is translated into Japanese automatically.

  3. 3

    Copy, compare, or download

    Turn on Show original to see each line next to its source, then copy the text or download a Japanese TXT or SRT file.

Japanese captions or a Japanese translation

Japanese auto-captions are in kanji and kana, and many Japanese creators burn subtitles into the video instead of uploading a caption track. When a video has no Japanese track, the tool machine-translates the transcript, which is accurate enough to follow along, study, or search. For publishing, have a Japanese speaker review it.

Learn Japanese with YouTube

Read a video's Japanese captions with your own language underneath, click any line to replay it, and download the bilingual transcript to study offline. Pick videos with creator-uploaded captions for the most accurate text.

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Need transcripts at scale? Use the API

The same transcripts are available through the YouTube Transcript API: timestamped JSON, text, SRT, VTT, CSV, or Markdown, 150+ languages, and AI transcription for videos without captions. Or connect the YouTube MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or Codex and just paste links in chat.

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Common questions

How do I get a Japanese transcript of a YouTube video?

Paste the link above. The tool uses the video's Japanese captions when it has them and translates the transcript into Japanese when it doesn't.

Can I translate an English video into Japanese?

Yes. Any video's transcript can be translated into Japanese. Turn on Show original to read both languages line by line, and download them together as a bilingual SRT or TXT.

Can I download Japanese subtitles?

Yes. After the transcript loads, click SRT or VTT for a Japanese subtitle file with the original timings.

Are Japanese auto-captions accurate?

Japanese auto-captions are in kanji and kana, and many Japanese creators burn subtitles into the video instead of uploading a caption track. Clear speech with little background noise gives the best results.

Is it free?

Yes. A few videos a day need no account, and signing in with Google raises the limit.