# Sorting Japanese words in Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-japanese-words-in-elastic-search/135606>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 12, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-japanese-words-in-elastic-search/135606 "2018-06-12T22:10:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nazim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Nazim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nazim)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-japanese-words-in-elastic-search/135606/1 "2018-06-12T22:10:15Z")

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Hi Team,

Seems there is an issue with Sorting Japanese words in Elastic Search.

If i have 2 words - 東京 (In English it is Tokyo) , 神奈川 (In English it is Kanagawa) sorting those words ascending and descending do not return results as expected. I am using the ICU plugin and below is the analyzer defined on this attribute.

"postToLocationName\_ja\_JP": {  
"type": "icu\_collation\_keyword"  
}  
Expected behaviour  
Ascending order  
神奈川  
東京

Descending Order  
東京  
神奈川

Actual behaviour which looks bug to me

Ascending order  
東京  
神奈川

Descending Order

神奈川  
東京

Please do let me know if I am missing some thing here.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-japanese-words-in-elastic-search/135606/2 "2018-07-10T22:10:21Z")

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