Changelog

All notable changes to japaneseness.com.

[1.0.0] — 2026-08-27

Added (JLPT N1 grammar — every JLPT level is now complete)

N1 grammar published — 165 grammar points (/grammar-n1/, /{lang}/grammar-n1/ × 49,

/grammar-n1/{id}/ × 165, printable worksheets at /worksheets/grammar_n1/{id}/), each with an English summary, Japanese summary, connection rule and 3 original example sentences (kanji / kana / English), written in the literary register these patterns require.

Two native-level review passes machine-diffed all 495 readings against a kana converter and

corrected 10 items — 〜ずにはおかない's doubled ない, 〜にしたところで taking a noun (not V-た), 〜こそすれ with する-nouns, 〜に寄せて needing an offered message, 〜ずして replaced with the set phrase 期せずして, and a register clash in 〜ときては.

content/master/n1/grammar_n1.yaml; /api/grammar-n1.json; sitemaps, N2 → N1 navigation,

/jlpt/ (all five levels ✅), /roadmap/, /embed/, homepage JLPT table.

Milestone

All five JLPT levels are complete: 2,805 worksheets — 100 kana, 2,184 kanji (N5–N1) and 521 grammar points (N5–N1), every one of them free, printable and CC BY-SA 4.0. Build: 12,215 files (Cloudflare Pages limit 20,000).

[0.23.0] — 2026-08-27

Changed (kana worksheets — recall practice)

Kana sheets left 33% of the page blank and stopped at copying. Each trace,

write and recognize sheet now ends with a recall block: two rows of boxes prompted by romaji (write the kana for the sound, from memory) — the step that actually proves you know the character. Blank space: 33% → 11% (recognize sheets 1%). No extra sheets of paper.

[0.22.0] — 2026-08-27

Changed (worksheet density — less paper, more practice)

Kanji worksheets wasted 52% of every A4 page and gave only 3 empty practice

boxes. Each sheet now has 20 boxes (2 traced + 18 blank) plus a word-writing line for each example word — blank space down to 5%, and the sheet finally practises the vocabulary it teaches.

New compact set for bulk printing: /worksheets/{kanji-category}/compact/

puts 8 kanji per page (stroke order, readings, example words, 5 boxes each). Printing a whole level drops from one sheet per kanji to one eighth: N5 80 → 10 pages, N4 158 → 20, N3 354 → 45, N2 361 → 46, N1 1,231 → 154.

Category pages now offer both (compact first for kanji), and say plainly how

many sheets of paper each option costs. Compact pages are in the sitemap.

[0.21.0] — 2026-08-27

Added (JLPT N1 kanji — every JLPT kanji is now covered)

N1 kanji published — 1,231 kanji (/kanji-n1/, /{lang}/kanji-n1/ × 49,

/kanji-n1/{id}/ × 1,231, printable worksheets at /worksheets/kanji_n1/{id}/), generated with build_kanji_level.py --level 1 (kanji-data + KanjiVG, 0 SVG failures).

Every N1 kanji has a Japanese gloss and 2 example words (word / reading / English).

Four native-level review passes fixed 45 entries — invented or ad-hoc compounds (妊娠初期, 桐箪笥, 収穫量), disputed readings (較差, 豊稔), missing rendaku (鮎釣り → あゆづり), circular glosses, and a loaded wartime slogan replaced. One reviewer machine-checked every word against JMdict/JMnedict via jamdict.

Kanji coverage is now complete: 2,184 kanji across N5–N1, each with stroke order,

readings, a Japanese gloss and example words.

/api/kanji-n1.json; sitemaps, N2 → N1 navigation, /jlpt/, /roadmap/, /embed/

and the homepage JLPT table updated.

Site total: 2,640 worksheets. Build: 11,594 files (Cloudflare Pages limit 20,000).

[0.20.0] — 2026-08-27

Added (JLPT N2 grammar — N2 is now complete)

N2 grammar published — 150 grammar points (/grammar-n2/, /{lang}/grammar-n2/ × 49,

/grammar-n2/{id}/ × 150, printable worksheets at /worksheets/grammar_n2/{id}/), each with an English summary, Japanese summary, connection rule and 3 original example sentences (kanji / kana / English). Two native-level review passes fixed 10 items (ものだから with a request clause, ではあるまいし and なくてはならない connection rules, こそ formation, てたまらない register, dropped particle in a kana reading, …).

content/master/n2/grammar_n2.yaml master; /api/grammar-n2.json endpoint; sitemaps,

N3 ↔ N2 grammar navigation, /jlpt/ (N2 ✅ 361 kanji + 150 grammar), /roadmap/, /embed/, and the homepage JLPT table updated.

Site total: 1,409 worksheets — 100 kana, 953 kanji (N5–N2), 356 grammar points (N5–N2).

Build: 6,507 files (Cloudflare Pages limit 20,000).

[0.19.0] — 2026-08-26

Added (SEO content)

Six new pages targeting the highest-volume beginner queries, all interlinked

with the worksheet sections: /hiragana-chart/ and /katakana-chart/ (full gojūon + dakuten + yōon tables with romaji, generated from the kana data, each row linked to its tracing sheet), /how-to-learn-hiragana/, /how-to-learn-katakana/, /japanese-stroke-order/ and the pillar /how-to-learn-japanese/ — ~6,400 words total, each with Article/LearningResource + BreadcrumbList JSON-LD.

Homepage: "Start here" guide block, a JLPT level table linking to all seven

kanji/grammar hubs (N5–N2), and counts now derived from the manifest so they can never go stale again.

/faq/ is data-driven and emits FAQPage JSON-LD for its 12 questions.
Guides linked from the header nav, mobile menu and footer.

Fixed

Language picker linked to 404s: on en-only pages it offered 49 locale URLs

that do not exist (~1,200 internal links to 404s). localized now defaults to false and is set explicitly on the 20 pages that really exist in every locale; elsewhere the picker points at the locale home. Site-wide internal link check now reports 0 broken links.

Header nav overflowed between 768–1024px — moved the desktop/mobile breakpoint to lg.
Stale copy across the site ("200 worksheets", "Phase 1 covers N5 only",

"800 PDFs in the pipeline"): now 1,259 worksheets, JLPT N5–N2, with /stats/ and the homepage computing the numbers from the manifest.

[0.18.1] — 2026-08-26

Fixed / Changed (SEO)

hreflang no longer points at 404s: the ~1,900 en-only detail pages

(kanji*/{id}, grammar*/{id}) emitted 50 hreflang alternates to locale URLs that do not exist. New localized={false} prop suppresses them (canonical kept).

sitemap-pages.xml is now generated (was a stale hand-rolled file):

17 static pages + 49 locales × 10 localized index pages = 507 URLs, including /kanji-n2/. en category indexes moved into sitemap-worksheets.xml.

Unique titles/descriptions for the 49-locale category index pages

(were all falling back to the site default).

Page-level JSON-LD (LearningResource + BreadcrumbList) on all 1,159

kanji and grammar detail pages.

RTL now applied for fa/he/ur (previously only ar).
Removed dead Cloudflare Analytics beacon (unconfigured token, render cost).
Google Fonts preconnect on printable worksheet pages.

[0.18.0] — 2026-08-24

Added (JLPT N2 kanji)

N2 kanji published — 361 kanji (/kanji-n2/, /{lang}/kanji-n2/ × 49, /kanji-n2/{id}/ × 361,

printable worksheets at /worksheets/kanji_n2/{id}/) generated with build_kanji_level.py --level 2 (kanji-data + KanjiVG), excluding kanji already in N5–N3.

Every N2 kanji has a Japanese gloss and 2 reviewed example words (word / reading / English).
content/master/n2/kanji_n2.yaml master; /api/kanji-n2.json endpoint; sitemap, N3 → N2

navigation, /jlpt/ (N2 kanji 361/361), /roadmap/, /embed/ updated.

Build: 5,890 files (Cloudflare Pages limit 20,000).

Known gaps

N2 grammar not started.

[0.17.0] — 2026-08-24

Added (JLPT N3 kanji)

N3 kanji published — 354 kanji (/kanji-n3/, /{lang}/kanji-n3/ × 49, /kanji-n3/{id}/ × 354)

with KanjiVG stroke-order SVGs and printable worksheets at /worksheets/kanji_n3/{id}/.

content/scripts/build_kanji_level.py — generic N3/N2/N1 builder from

davidluzgouveia/kanji-data (KANJIDIC2) + KanjiVG. Skips kanji already published at a lower level, so N3 = 367 candidates − 13 already in N4 = 354.

content/master/n3/kanji_n3.yaml master file (N4-compatible schema).
/api/kanji-n3.json public endpoint; N3 detail pages added to sitemap.
N4 → N3 navigation on category pages; /jlpt/, /roadmap/, /embed/ updated.

Added (JLPT N3 grammar)

N3 grammar published — 136 grammar points (/grammar-n3/, /{lang}/grammar-n3/ × 49,

/grammar-n3/{id}/ × 136, printable worksheets at /worksheets/grammar_n3/{id}/). Each point has an English summary, Japanese summary, formation rule and 3 original example sentences (kanji / kana / English). Content reviewed for grammar, readings and translations.

content/master/n3/grammar_n3.yaml master; /api/grammar-n3.json endpoint.
Grammar detail pages and printable worksheets now render formation and

examples when present in the manifest (N5/N4 unchanged until backfilled).

Changed (N5/N4 grammar)

All 20 N5 + 50 N4 grammar points now have a Japanese summary, formation rule and

3 full example sentences (kanji / kana / English) — previously N5 had untranslated kana snippets and N4 only word-level hints. Shown on detail pages, printable worksheets and /api/manifest.json. Masters updated (grammar_n5.yaml, n4/grammar_n4.yaml).

Added (kanji example words)

All 354 N3 kanji now have a Japanese gloss (meaning_ja) and 2 example words

(word / reading / English), reviewed for readings and level. Kun readings trimmed to the 4 most useful, KANJIDIC dot notation → hyphen (こた-える).

Example words from the N5/N4 masters (80 + 158 kanji) are now in the manifest

and shown on kanji detail pages and printable worksheets for all three levels.

Fixed N4 前 / 後 which had empty readings, meanings and words.

[0.16.0] — 2026-07-12

Changed (PR1 / 案A: single-URL worksheets)

Worksheets now live at a single URL per sheet (/worksheets/{cat}/{id}/, en canonical).

Instructions switch between all 50 languages client-side via a language selector, ?lang= parameter, localStorage, or navigator.language (RTL supported for ar/fa/he/ur).

New /worksheet-i18n.json endpoint serves the 50-locale instruction dictionary.
Removed per-locale worksheet routes (/{lang}/worksheets/) — build shrinks

13,558 → 1,089 pages (dist 13,917 → 1,449 files). Headroom for N3/N2/N1 and vocabulary within the Cloudflare Pages 20,000-file free limit.
Category pages, kanji/grammar detail pages, and the 50-language UI keep their

per-locale URLs (unchanged).
DRAFT_LOCALES page-generation split is obsolete (all 50 locales now share the

same worksheet pages via the client switcher).
[0.15.0] — 2026-07-03

Added

N4 kanji detail pages — /kanji-n4/{id}/ × 158 with KanjiVG stroke-order SVGs

(downloaded via content/scripts/fetch_kanjivg_n4.py, CC BY-SA 3.0)

N4 grammar detail pages — /grammar-n4/{id}/ × 50

/api/kanji-n4.json — public JSON endpoint for the 158 N4 kanji

N4 category cards now link to detail pages; N4 detail URLs added to sitemap

Fixed

Deployments were failing silently: Cloudflare Pages 20,000-file limit exceeded

(21,419 files after N4 grammar). Draft-UI locales (19) now share the root (en) printable sheets instead of per-locale pages → 13,916 files.
[0.14.0] — 2026-07-03

Added

JLPT N4 grammar worksheets (50 sheets) — /grammar-n4/ category pages (en + 49 langs),

printable sheets at /worksheets/grammar_n4/{id}/ + /worksheets/grammar_n4/all/

N5 ↔ N4 grammar cross-links on grammar category pages

grammar_n4 added to manifest (from content/master/n4/grammar_n4.yaml) and worksheet sitemap

Build

21,216 HTML pages

[0.13.0] — 2026-07-03

Added

JLPT N4 kanji worksheets (158 sheets) — /kanji-n4/ category pages (en + 49 langs),

printable sheets at /worksheets/kanji_n4/{id}/ + /worksheets/kanji_n4/all/

/worksheets/ hub page (en + 49 langs) — one place to reach every printable category

N5 ↔ N4 cross-links on kanji category pages

🖨 Print link in nav (desktop + mobile)

UI translations for the last 19 languages (bn, sw, mr, te, ta, pa, ml, gu, kn, ur,

my, am, ha, ig, zu, su, qu, gn, haw) — status machine_draft, native review welcome. All 50 languages now have localized UI.
SEO

rel=canonical on every page (BaseLayout + PrintLayout)

hreflang × 50 + x-default and meta description on worksheet pages

Sitemap restructured: sitemap.xml is now an index →

sitemap-pages.xml (site pages) + sitemap-worksheets.xml (18,250 worksheet URLs)
Pagefind indexing scoped to
(data-pagefind-body)

CI

GitHub Actions workflows enabled (.github/workflows/) — build-pdfs +

manual-fallback Pages deploy (auto-deploy stays on Cloudflare Pages Git integration)
Build

18,616 HTML pages

[0.12.0] — 2026-05-11 (later)

Added

Public JSON API at /api/:

- /api/manifest.json — full sheet catalog (all categories) - /api/kanji.json — 80 N5 kanji with readings + SVG paths - /api/languages.json — Tier 1 50 languages metadata - CORS open, cacheable, no auth needed

/embed/ page — guide for educators to integrate worksheets:

- Hotlink stable URLs - Iframe detail pages - JSON API for dynamic use - Stable URL patterns documented (/kanji/{id}/, /grammar/{id}/, /kanji_svg/{code}.svg, /og/kanji/{id}.png)

Featured Kanji on homepage now baked at build time:

- Deterministic daily rotation (UTC day-of-year mod 80) - SVG stroke order, EN+JA meanings, on/kun readings, link to detail - No JS fetch — fully static, ships under 5KB extra
Docs

BOOTSTRAP_LOG.md fully refreshed: page list, i18n breakdown, remaining tasks

CLAUDE.md Phase 1 progress section overhauled

Build

366 HTML pages + 3 JSON endpoints

[0.11.0] — 2026-05-11 (later)

Added

/roadmap/ — Phase 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 timeline visualization

Each phase: status (in-progress/planned/future/vision), done list, remaining list

/jlpt/ — JLPT N5 through N1 progression with progress bars

Shows kanji + grammar coverage per level (N5 done, N4 prepped, N3-N1 future)

/press-kit/ — brand + media kit: one-liner, colors, logo downloads,

long-form description, quotable stats, contact

Featured kanji widget on homepage — daily-rotating kanji (deterministic

based on UTC day) with SVG stroke order, readings, link to detail

All 19 ui-pending languages now have native names in their lang_label

(was 'BN', 'UR', etc. — now 'বাংলা', 'اردو', 'மிற்', 'மலையாளம்', 'Kiswahili', 'Igbo', 'Runa Simi', 'ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi', etc.)
Changed

Mobile nav now includes Roadmap, JLPT, Languages

Footer extended: Roadmap · JLPT · Press · Privacy · Stats links

LOCALE_LABELS regenerated to use native names for all 50 langs

Build

365 HTML pages (was 362 — adds /roadmap/, /jlpt/, /press-kit/)

[0.10.0] — 2026-05-11 (later)

Added

N4 kanji COMPLETED: 156/158 N4 kanji now have stroke counts, on/kun

readings, English meanings, and 2 example words each (was 30/158 → 80/158 → now 156/158, near-complete)

N4 grammar 50 topics with examples (te-form variants, conditionals

たら/ば/と/なら, modal expressions, comparison より/ほうが, time relationships とき/まえに/あとで, concession のに/けれども, etc.)

20 grammar-specific OG images at /og/grammar/{grammar_id}.png

- Each /grammar/grammar_n5_NNN/ now has unique social card

Cmd+K / Ctrl+K shortcut → opens /search/ from any page

Search nav link with ⌘K hint (visible on lg+ viewports)

/contribute/ rewritten with task-list layout:

- 9 specific actionable tasks across Translation/Outreach/Content/Code - Each with badge (⭐ count), time estimate, difficulty - Direct links to the relevant GitHub files/pages
Build

362 HTML pages

100 detail-page OG images (80 kanji + 20 grammar)

[0.9.0] — 2026-05-11 (later)

Added

80 kanji-specific OG images at /og/kanji/{kanji_id}.png

- Each kanji detail page (/kanji/kanji_n5_NNN/) has a unique social card - Composited from KanjiVG stroke-order SVG + meaning text + JLPT badge - Sharing /kanji/kanji_n5_001/ on Slack now shows 一 with stroke order

/stats/ page — live numbers from the project:

- 200 worksheet definitions, 800 PDFs in pipeline, 50 languages, 80 kanji SVGs, 362 HTML pages, etc. - Progress bars for language coverage (4/50 full, 27/50 UI translated) - Per-category sheet count table

/privacy/ page — honest privacy policy: no tracking cookies, no marketing,

no fingerprinting; Cloudflare Web Analytics is the only beacon (anonymous, aggregated). Important for GDPR-conscious users in EU/UK regions.

Footer links to /privacy/ and /stats/

50 more N4 kanji filled with data (意, 不, 作, 用, 度, 強, 公, 持, 野,

以, 思, 家, 世, 多, 正, 安, 院, 心, 界, 教, 文, 元, 重, 近, 考, 画, 海, 売, 知, 道, 集, 別, 物, 使, 品, 計, 死, 特, 私, 始, 朝, 運, 終, 台, 広, 住, 真, 有, 口, 少) - N4 kanji with data: 80/158 (was 30/158)
Changed

CategoryList li hover now adds background tint (visual feedback)

Kanji detail pages use their unique OG image instead of the generic one

Build

362 HTML pages (was 360 — added /stats/ + /privacy/)

80 new kanji OG PNGs (~22KB each, ~1.8MB total)

[0.8.0] — 2026-05-11 (later)

Added

Mobile hamburger menu — <800px viewport shows ☰ toggle, full drawer

with all nav links (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, Grammar, Teachers, Learners, Resources, Languages, About, Contribute, Search)

Category-specific PNG OG images at /og/{category}.png

Each social card now matches the page topic (Hiragana shows あいうえお, Kanji shows 日一人大, etc.)

"What's new" navigation strip on homepage linking /changelog/,

/languages/, /teachers/

30 N4 kanji filled with readings + examples (会, 同, 事, 自, 社, 発, 者,

地, 業, 方, 新, 場, 員, 立, 開, 手, 力, 問, 代, 明, 動, 京, 目, 通, 言, 理, 体, 田, 主, 題). Remaining 128 N4 kanji are Phase 2.
Changed

PDF download buttons honor a real availability flag:

- manifest.json has pdfs_available: false while R2 isn't wired up - Category pages show "📅 PDF coming soon" instead of broken 404 links - Kanji and grammar detail pages show a disabled "Coming soon" pill - "Download all (ZIP)" buttons are conditionally rendered - When R2 is wired up and PDFs uploaded, flipping to true re-enables all download UIs everywhere
Strategy

Going honest: showing dead PDF links would erode trust. "Coming soon"

with a transparent banner explaining the build pipeline is better than silent 404s.
[0.7.0] — 2026-05-11 (latest)

Added

PNG OG image at /og-image.png (1200×630, rasterized from SVG via cairosvg)

- Twitter / Slack / LinkedIn social cards now render properly

PNG favicons: favicon.ico (32×32), apple-touch-icon (180×180),

icon-192, icon-512

PWA manifest (manifest.webmanifest) — installable on mobile

/changelog/ page — renders this file as HTML on the site

A11y improvements:

- Skip-link for keyboard users (Tab on any page → "Skip to content") - role="main", role="contentinfo", aria-label on nav and language picker - :focus-visible ring (vermilion 3px outline) on all interactive elements

N4 master skeleton populated: 158 N4 kanji char + id (readings TODO)

Changed

og-image.svg → og-image.png (PNG works on all social platforms)

Build

360 HTML pages (was 359 — added /changelog/)

[0.6.0] — 2026-05-11 (later)

Added

80 kanji detail pages at /kanji/{kanji_id}/ (e.g. /kanji/kanji_n5_001/)

- Large stroke-order SVG, big kanji glyph, on/kun readings table - Meaning in EN + JA, PDF download button, Prev/Next nav - SEO-optimized title/description per kanji

20 grammar detail pages at /grammar/{grammar_id}/

- Topic + summary + JLPT level + PDF download - Prev/Next nav between topics
Kanji and grammar cards on category pages now link to detail pages

4 more hand-translated UI languages (Hindi, Hebrew, Persian, Finnish)

→ ui-ready languages: 27 (was 23) → ui-pending languages: 19 (was 23)
content/scripts/translate_ui.py — local script to Claude-translate

remaining 19 ui-pending UI files when run by the user with their key
Changed

Plausible Analytics replaced with Cloudflare Web Analytics

(free, privacy-friendly, no cookies, no script bloat). User just needs to paste their CF Web Analytics token into BaseLayout (token placeholder in place).
Build

359 HTML pages (was 259) — adds 80 kanji + 20 grammar detail pages

Sitemap needs regeneration for new pages (next push)

[0.5.0] — 2026-05-11

Major: 50-language UI rollout

All 50 Tier 1 languages now accessible at /{code}/ URLs

(Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese, Urdu, German, Swahili, Marathi, Telugu, Turkish, Tamil, Vietnamese, Korean, Italian, Persian, Polish, Ukrainian, Punjabi, Malayalam, Hausa, Igbo, Burmese, Thai, Gujarati, Romanian, Dutch, Kannada, Sundanese, Tagalog, Malay, Hebrew, Greek, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Amharic, Zulu, Quechua, Guarani, Hawaiian — plus existing en/id/yo/ja)
Three-tier status system replacing the lock icon

✅ Full content (4 langs): UI translated + all 200 worksheets

🌐 UI translated (23 langs): hand-written UI strings, worksheets in

English/Indonesian/Yoruba/Japanese fallback

⚙️ UI pending** (23 langs): English fallback UI, awaiting translation

Added

50 i18n JSON files in site/src/i18n/ (gen_50lang_i18n.py generator)
RTL_LOCALES set for Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Persian — dir="rtl"

on for these locales

HREFLANG_MAP with proper BCP47 codes per locale
50-locale sitemap (~257 URLs)
/languages/ rewritten with 3-tier badge system + region grouping
Header language picker now scrollable (max-height + overflow)

Strategy

We acknowledged that locking 46 languages behind 🔒 was overcautious.

Better: ship the UI in all 50, be transparent about what's hand-translated vs machine-pending, let learners browse + invite review contributions.

Worksheet content (PDFs) still strict 4-language scope until native

reviewers commit.

[0.4.0] — 2026-05-03 (later)

Added

50-language Tier 1 roadmap (site/src/data/languages.json)

- 4 live (en, id, yo, ja) + 46 on roadmap with 🔒 lock icon - Mix of high-population languages and linguistic diversity - Includes RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Persian) and minority langs (Quechua, Hawaiian, Guaraní)

/languages/ page: full grid of 50 languages grouped by region

- Speakers, script, RTL flag per language - "Vote for your language" CTA → GitHub Discussions

Language picker (header dropdown) now shows '🔒 + 46 more languages →' link
Homepage now teases 50-language roadmap
Languages link added to top nav
/languages/ added to sitemap.xml

Strategy

Phase 1 stays focused on 3 'live' languages — won't ship machine-translated

worksheets without native reviewer (trust > scale)

Roadmap signals ambition without overpromising
Native reviewer commitment is the explicit prioritization signal

[0.3.0] — 2026-05-03 (later)

Added

80 KanjiVG SVG files for all N5 kanji (CC BY-SA 3.0, attributed)
Kanji cards on the site now show stroke order SVG inline (lazy-loaded)
/donate/ — honest 'we want time, not money' page with Phase 2 plans
/sitemap.xml — hand-rolled (28 URLs, since @astrojs/sitemap incompatible)
robots.txt now references sitemap
Plausible Analytics script enabled (needs account at plausible.io)
JSON-LD structured data (EducationalOrganization) in BaseLayout
Japanese explanations (meaning_ja_default) for all 80 N5 kanji
N4 master skeletons (kanji_n4.yaml + grammar_n4.yaml) for Phase 2
/learners/ — 30-day starter path for self-learners
/resources/ — curated free Japanese-learning resources
/faq/ — common questions answered
README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md as proper repo entry points

[0.2.0] — 2026-05-03

Added

🌐 Site live at https://japaneseness.com (Cloudflare Pages, custom domain, SSL)
4 languages: English, Bahasa Indonesia, Yorùbá, 日本語
200 worksheets per language defined: 50 hiragana + 50 katakana + 80 N5 kanji + 20 N5 grammar
80 N5 kanji with 163 example words + Japanese explanations
6 XeLaTeX templates (base, hiragana_trace/recognize/write, kanji_sheet, grammar_sheet)
New site pages: /teachers/, /learners/, /resources/, /faq/, /search/, /contribute/, /about/
Pagefind full-text search across 4 languages (~330 indexed words)
Cloudflare Pages auto-deploy from GitHub main branch
public/_headers (security + cache rules), _redirects (www → apex)
og-image.svg (1200×630 social card)

Changed

Site converted to monorepo (site/ + content/) under toriiyu/japaneseness
Manifest now lists all 200 sheets per category with rich per-sheet metadata
CategoryList component groups by trace/recognize/write for kana, shows readings for kanji
Removed Astro i18n fallback (was generating 60+ erroneous URL paths)

Known issues

PDF download links 404 (R2 bucket on wrong account, full pipeline run pending)
Sitemap not generated (@astrojs/sitemap incompatible with current Astro 4.16 + i18n combo)
GitHub Actions workflows live in _pending_workflows/ (PAT lacked workflow scope)

[0.1.0] — 2026-04-26

Added

Initial scaffold (CLAUDE.md project brief, site/, content/, R2 + Pages plan)
5 starter hiragana sheets (あ-row only)
bootstrap.sh + cf_bootstrap.sh helper scripts

Live version: github.com/toriiyu/japaneseness/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md