<p>We will
look at the development of CHILDES in Japan, including the specific
difficulties deriving from the fact that Japanese uses a non-Latin script, and
try to analyze the problems and chances of the current situation. </p>
This is the accepted version of the chapter which has been published in final form as Miyata, S., & MacWhinney, B. (2016). CHILDES for Japanese: Corpora, Programs, Perspectives. In Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics (pp. 255-282). De Gruyter.