Japanese Date plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

Converts a date string or date object to Japanese format, with the ability to calculate and display the Modern Japan Era name (Reiwa/令和, Heisei/平成, Showa/昭和, Taisho/大正, Meiji/明治).

Examples

All examples can accept a year as a string or integer (eg. "2018" or 2018), a date string ("2018-12-25"), or a date object (eg. now).

Get object with era information

{{ craft.japaneseDate.era('2018') }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getEra('2018') }}

Display Era

Kanji Name

{{ craft.japaneseDate.era('2018').kanji_name }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.kanjiEra('2018') }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getKanjiEra('2018') }}

Outputs:

平成

Alphabetical Name

{{ craft.japaneseDate.era('2018').alpha_name }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.alphaEra('2018') }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getAlphaEra('2018') }}

Outputs:

Heisei

Short Name

{{ craft.japaneseDate.era('2018').short_name }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.shortEra('2018') }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getShortEra('2018') }}

Outputs:

H

Display Year

{{ craft.japaneseDate.year('2018') }} or {{ craft.japaneseDate.getYear('2018') }}

Same as (alias of):

{{ craft.japaneseDate.era('2018') }}

Year in Kanji

{{ craft.japaneseDate.kanjiYear('2018') }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getKanjiYear('2018') }}

Outputs:

平成30年

Use true as a second parameter to use 元 for Year 1 of an era:

{{ craft.japaneseDate.kanjiYear('1989', true) }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getKanjiYear('1989', true) }}

Outputs:

平成元年

Year in Short Format

{{ craft.japaneseDate.shortYear('2018') }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getShortYear('2018') }}

Outputs:

H30

Full Date

{{ craft.japaneseDate.date('2018-12-25') }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getDate('2018-12-25') }}

Outputs:

平成30年12月25日

Use true as a second parameter to use 元 for Year 1 of an era:

{{ craft.japaneseDate.date('1989-12-25', true) }} or 
{{ craft.japaneseDate.getDate('1989-12-25', true) }}

Outputs:

平成元年12月25日