About Kuromoji Kuromoji is an open source Japanese morphological analyzer written in Java. Kuromoji has been donated to the Apache Software Foundation and provides the Japanese language support in Apache Lucene and Apache Solr 3.6 and 4.0 releases, but it can also be used separately. Downloading Download Apache Lucene or Apache Solr if you want to use Kuromoji with Lucene or Solr. See below for so