README.md

1# 日常訳 / Nichijoyaku23An open Japanese Bible translation, maintained and stewarded by **Conor Livingston**.45The Japanese text is **CC BY 4.0**; project software is **MIT**. See LICENSE6and software/LICENSE. The Bible was generated with AI and has not received7comprehensive human expert review. File verification does not prove accuracy.89## Read, reuse, contribute1011- [Read edition 1](https://japanbible.net/?translation=nichijo-v1).12- [Project, method and evidence](https://nichijoyaku.pages.dev/).13- `edition-1/`: verified book JSON, JSONL, CSV, text, USFM, furigana and14  printable academic study layout. The study layout uses the same edition.15- `edition-1/checksums.json`: SHA-256 for every distribution file.16- Download the complete source archive from the project website; no GitHub17  account is needed to inspect, verify or reuse it.18- [Suggest a correction without an account](https://nichijoyaku.pages.dev/contribute/).19  Identify edition, passage, current wording or reading, proposed change and reason.20  Do not include private data.2122## What can be inspected2324`software/` contains the translation pipeline's source, not its private runtime25environment. `evidence/` includes pinned prompts/configuration, release evidence,26usage summaries, and surviving numbering decisions with Japanese alternatives.27`provenance-v1/` publishes 28,602 saved parsed outputs from 1,096 release-matched28chapter files. 6,446 include retained-input hashes, reference labels and timing;29one project-authored system prompt is available in full. Historical prompts30include Kougo and KJV, so a claim of no reference inputs is contradicted.31Exact user prompts remain private because they embed separately licensed text.3294 missing/changed chapter inputs are explicitly listed. Two Joel chapters33were recovered from Git history and verified against the original audit.34Original-language corpora and reference Bible translations are not redistributed.35Download prerequisites using the software's documented source importers.3637The prompt builder supports reference translations. We do **not** claim that38no other translations were input, that all model training data was copyright39free, or that every historical LLM input/output survives. Existing evidence is40published as evidence; missing records are not reconstructed and relabeled as41original logs. Model labels in saved records are not independent vendor checks.4243## Reproduce and verify4445From the extracted source directory: `python3 tools/verify-package.py` checks every distributed46file against its checksum manifest. No network or model calls are required.47The release-generation tools in `tools/` document the export from the source48monorepo; they need that original layout and are not standalone translators.49Use `software/README.md` for pipeline requirements. Private runtime state is not50included and running a translation may incur provider charges.5152## Changes and stewardship5354Submissions do not rewrite a published edition automatically. A change records55the old text, proposed text, reference, reason, reviewer role and decision.56Keep edition 1 immutable; publish accepted translation changes as a new edition57with its own manifest. AI review and human review must remain distinguishable.5859Why open source? Reuse should not depend on one website, device or maintainer.60People should be able to inspect the work, correct mistakes and build new61reading, teaching and accessibility tools around it.62