diff --git a/styles.css b/styles.css
index 8f2f61e..1e7c23c 100644
--- a/styles.css
+++ b/styles.css
@@ -5698,6 +5698,11 @@ input:checked + .slider::before {
     container-name: sidepanel;
 }
 
+/* Force Japanese font shaping so kanji like 刀 render as Japanese glyphs, not simplified Chinese */
+am-lyrics {
+    font-language-override: 'JA';
+}
+
 @container sidepanel (min-width: 500px) {
     .panel-content am-lyrics {
         --lyplus-font-size-base: 36px;
@@ -10982,6 +10987,9 @@ body:has(#side-panel.active) #close-fullscreen-cover-btn {
         'Noto Sans Malayalam', 'Noto Sans Sinhala', 'Noto Sans Khmer', 'Noto Sans Lao', 'Noto Sans Myanmar',
         'Noto Sans Georgian', 'Noto Sans Armenian', 'Noto Sans Ethiopic', system-ui, sans-serif;
 
+    /* Force Japanese font shaping so kanji like 刀 render as Japanese, not simplified Chinese */
+    font-language-override: 'JA';
+
     --lyplus-font-size-base: clamp(34px, 3vw, 52px);
     --lyplus-padding-line: 8px;
     --lyplus-text-color: rgb(246, 244, 239, 0.08);