Japanese punctuation what follows proves, clarifies, explains, or simply enumerates elements of what is referred to before. Although not a native Japanese punctuation mark, the colon is sometimes used, especially in academic writing. As in English, the colon is commonly used in Japanese to indicate time (, instead of or ) or for lists ( Day/time: March 3, 4:05pm). The is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and generally marks the end of a sentence. A sentence ending in an exclamation mark is either an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), a command ("Stop!"), or is
Quotation mark punctuation should be written inside or outside the quotation marks; North American printing usually puts ending punctuation to the left of the closing quotation mark, whether it is part of the original quoted material or not, while styles elsewhere vary widely and have different rationales for placing it inside or outside, often a matter of house style. Regarding the aspect, there are two types of quotation marks: The closing single quotation mark is identical or similar in form (depending on the font) to the apostrophe and similar to the prime symbol. The double quotation mark is identical to the ditto