diff --git a/.portsignore b/.portsignore
index 18afb2f3c8dd..481f5af7af85 100644
--- a/.portsignore
+++ b/.portsignore
@@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ japanese/p5-Encode-ISO2022
 japanese/p5-Encode-JP-Emoji
 japanese/p5-Encode-JP-Mobile
 japanese/p5-HTML-MobileJp
+japanese/p5-Jcode
 japanese/p5-Lingua-JA-Kana
 japanese/p5-Lingua-JA-Moji
 japanese/p5-Lingua-JA-Numbers
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 98a9c1d2eb3a..e0f00e70bb1a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ SUBDIR += ftp
 SUBDIR += games
 SUBDIR += graphics
 SUBDIR += irc
-SUBDIR += japanese
 SUBDIR += java
 SUBDIR += lang
 SUBDIR += mail
diff --git a/Mk/bsd.port.mk b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
index 230a2f625c1f..df7fb3a4f00f 100644
--- a/Mk/bsd.port.mk
+++ b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
@@ -2554,7 +2554,7 @@ VALID_CATEGORIES+= accessibility afterstep archivers astro audio \
 	editors education elisp emulators enlightenment \
 	filesystems finance ftp \
 	games geography gnome gnustep graphics \
-	hamradio haskell irc japanese java \
+	hamradio haskell irc java \
 	kde ${_KDE_CATEGORIES_SUPPORTED} kld \
 	lang linux lisp \
 	mail mate math mbone misc multimedia \
diff --git a/japanese/Makefile b/japanese/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e29422dac88..000000000000
--- a/japanese/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-    COMMENT = Japanese support
-
-    SUBDIR += p5-Jcode
-
-.include <bsd.port.subdir.mk>
diff --git a/japanese/Makefile.inc b/japanese/Makefile.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index cf93859361d0..000000000000
--- a/japanese/Makefile.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-
-PKGNAMEPREFIX?=	ja-
diff --git a/japanese/p5-Jcode/Makefile b/japanese/p5-Jcode/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 253675b9c65e..000000000000
--- a/japanese/p5-Jcode/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-PORTNAME=	Jcode
-PORTVERSION=	2.07
-PORTREVISION=	1
-CATEGORIES=	japanese perl5
-MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
-
-MAINTAINER=	perl@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Perl extension interface to convert Japanese text
-WWW=		https://metacpan.org/release/Jcode
-
-LICENSE=	ART10 GPLv1+
-LICENSE_COMB=	dual
-
-USES=		perl5
-USE_PERL5=	configure
-
-NO_ARCH=	yes
-
-.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
-
-PKGNAMEPREFIX:=	${PKGNAMEPREFIX}p5-
-
-.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/japanese/p5-Jcode/distinfo b/japanese/p5-Jcode/distinfo
deleted file mode 100644
index 0692e02b1433..000000000000
--- a/japanese/p5-Jcode/distinfo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1512068004
-SHA256 (Jcode-2.07.tar.gz) = ed1ce473ec869089e52016cfc8355165ebc37be9694ba4e829c7eb4ba1c45f8d
-SIZE (Jcode-2.07.tar.gz) = 350179
diff --git a/japanese/p5-Jcode/pkg-descr b/japanese/p5-Jcode/pkg-descr
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a42fdb00362..000000000000
--- a/japanese/p5-Jcode/pkg-descr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-This is a Perl extension interface to convert Japanese text.
diff --git a/japanese/p5-Jcode/pkg-plist b/japanese/p5-Jcode/pkg-plist
deleted file mode 100644
index c0f10e7a58e8..000000000000
--- a/japanese/p5-Jcode/pkg-plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-%%PERL5_MAN3%%/Jcode.3.gz
-%%PERL5_MAN3%%/Jcode::Nihongo.3.gz
-%%SITE_PERL%%/Jcode.pm
-%%SITE_PERL%%/Jcode/Nihongo.pod