How this page breaks Japanese lines

Short summary

Japanese text breaks awkwardly in narrow columns because the language has no spaces—browsers freely split words mid-character and leave punctuation dangling, breaking readability for Japanese readers. CSS properties like line-break: strict and word-break: keep-all prevent breaks but cause overflow, requiring semantic break points at phrase boundaries. Google's BudouX phrase-segmentation model identifies these boundaries; injected as <wbr> tags at build time, it respects Japanese typographic rules automatically without shipping any JavaScript to users.

• •Japanese typography requires phrase-boundary breaks, not character-level breaks, to avoid orphaned punctuation and word splits
• •CSS line-break: strict and word-break: keep-all prevent incorrect breaks but cause overflow without semantic break points
• •Google's BudouX model segments phrases; inserted as <wbr> tags at build time, it handles kinsoku rules without client-side JavaScript

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