diff --git a/japanese/man/files/patch-Makefile.inc b/japanese/man/files/patch-Makefile.inc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0c558a642042
--- /dev/null
+++ b/japanese/man/files/patch-Makefile.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- Makefile.inc.bak	Wed Jul  4 17:40:24 2001
++++ Makefile.inc	Wed Jul  4 17:41:39 2001
+@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
+ bindir=			${BINDIR}
+ pager=			jless -s
+ manpath_config_file=	/etc/manpath.config
+-troff=			${bindir}/groff -S -mandoc
+-nroff=                  ${bindir}/groff -S -Wall -Tnippon -mtty-char -mandoc
++troff=			${bindir}/groff -S -mandoc -dlang=ja_JP.eucJP
++nroff=                  ${bindir}/groff -S -Wall -Tnippon -mtty-char -mandoc\
++			-dlang=ja_JP.eucJP
+ apropos=		${bindir}/japropos
+ whatis=			${bindir}/jwhatis
+ neqn=                   ${bindir}/geqn -Tascii