# Space or no space between certain Japanese characters like "「」" and "～"

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/space-or-no-space-between-certain-japanese-characters-like-and/624406
**Category:** Style
**Tags:** japanese, style
**Created:** [February 18, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/space-or-no-space-between-certain-japanese-characters-like-and/624406 "2023-02-18T15:28:47Z")
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### Author: ![yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b77776/32.png) [@yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yindesu)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/space-or-no-space-between-certain-japanese-characters-like-and/624406/10 "2023-02-24T15:40:54Z")

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Japanese official sources tend to be inconsistent with whitespaces before and after parentheses. Personally, I insert whitespace before ETI in track titles, and I exclude whitespace before the character voice (CV) component in artist credits. If you don’t like that, you can [use a tagger script to change it on your end](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/taggerscript-standardize-japanese-cv-artist-credit-whitespace-and-punctuation/556927).

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