diff --git a/text/japanese.py b/text/japanese.py
index 31cdf45..dde314d 100644
--- a/text/japanese.py
+++ b/text/japanese.py
@@ -361,7 +361,16 @@ def align_tones(phones, tones):
     return res
 
 
+import pykakasi
+
+kks = pykakasi.kakasi()
+
+
 def g2p(norm_text):
+    result = kks.convert(norm_text)
+    norm_text = ""
+    for i in result:
+        norm_text += i["hira"]
     sep_text, sep_kata, acc = text2sep_kata(norm_text)
     sep_tokenized = [tokenizer.tokenize(i) for i in sep_text]
     sep_phonemes = handle_long([kata2phoneme(i) for i in sep_kata])