Javanese is NOT Japanese Many people think that between Javanese and Japanese are the same language. But, it's totally wrong. Javanese comes from Indonesia, and Japanese comes from Japan. People oftenly made a mistake about this 2 languages. Please be noticed that Javanese is DIFFERENT with Japanese. But the same thing is, Japanese and Javanese have some letters of alphabet, but back again, between Japanese letters of alphabet and Javanese letters of alphabet have different shape and different ways to pronounce. Japanese letter of alphabet called katakana, hiragana, and kanji. Meanwhile, Javanese letter of alphabet called Aksara Jawa