diff --git a/doc/ja/Makefile b/doc/ja/Makefile
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+SOURCES=$(wildcard *.[0-9].ja.txt)
+MAN=$(SOURCES:%.txt=%)
+HTML=$(SOURCES:%.txt=%.html)
+
+all: man html
+
+man: $(MAN)
+
+html: $(HTML)
+
+%: %.xml
+	xmlto man $*.xml
+
+%.xml: %.txt
+	-asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook -f docbook.ja.conf $*.txt
+
+%.html: %.txt
+	asciidoc -b html4 $*.txt
+
+clean:
+	$(RM) $(MAN:%.ja=%) $(MAN:%=%.xml) $(MAN:%=%.html)