diff --git a/languages/ja-JP.lang.yaml b/languages/ja-JP.lang.yaml
index ff041aa0..8b1c6ef5 100644
--- a/languages/ja-JP.lang.yaml
+++ b/languages/ja-JP.lang.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 ---
+#translation info file for our example language
+#languages are made up of a few different files:
+#<locale>.lang.yaml       - general info about the translation
+#<locale>-irc.lang.json   - IRC strings to be translated
+#<locale>-help.lang.json  - help entries to be translated
+#we split up translations in this way so that they can be displayed more nicely on CrowdIn
+#name - this is the 'nice' or 'full' name of the language
 name: "日本語"
+#code - this is what the language will be referred to in our list of languages
 code: "ja-JP"
+#incomplete - whether to mark this language as incomplete
 incomplete: true