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Japanese doesn't have an actual language group like most languages do (e.g. Danish is part of the North Germanic language group, closely related to Swedish and Norwegian), however, I have heard that Korean would be the most closely related, as both languages borrowed common characters from the chinese language and also my guess would be they are reasonably similar given they are geographically close, however, by no means mutually intelligible.

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