diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs
index 02c97c5f7..fe676163e 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs
@@ -2814,11 +2814,11 @@ const JAPANESE: &[(&str, &str, &str)] = &[
     ("layer.sequence", "Sequence Layers...", "シーケンスレイヤー..."),
     ("keys.timeReverse", "Time-Reverse Keyframes", "時間反転キーフレーム"),
     ("", "Animate Text", "テキストをアニメート"),
-    ("layer.enablePerChar3D", "Enable Per-character 3D", "文字ごとの3Dを有効化"),
+    ("layer.enablePerChar3D", "Enable Per-character 3D", "文字単位の 3D 化を使用"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Anchor Point", "アンカーポイント"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Position", "位置"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Scale", "スケール"),
-    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Skew", "傾斜"),
+    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Skew", "歪曲"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Rotation", "回転"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Opacity", "不透明度"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "All Transform Properties", "すべてのトランスフォームプロパティ"),
@@ -2834,13 +2834,13 @@ const JAPANESE: &[(&str, &str, &str)] = &[
     ("", "Side", "側面"),
     ("", "Back", "背面"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Color", "カラー"),
-    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Tracking", "トラッキング"),
-    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Line Anchor", "行のアンカー"),
-    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Line Spacing", "行間"),
+    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Tracking", "字送り"),
+    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Line Anchor", "ラインアンカー"),
+    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Line Spacing", "ラインスペース"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Character Offset", "文字のオフセット"),
-    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Character Value", "文字の値"),
+    ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Character Value", "文字コード"),
     ("layer.addTextAnimator", "Blur", "ブラー"),
-    ("text.animatorFontAxes", "Variable Font Axes", "可変フォントの軸"),
+    ("text.animatorFontAxes", "Variable Font Axes", "バリアブルフォント軸"),
     ("", "Add Text Selector", "テキストセレクターを追加"),
     ("text.addSelector", "Range", "範囲"),
     ("text.addSelector", "Wiggly", "ウィグリー"),
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ui.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ui.rs
index 38838b01f..d10f0ce07 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ui.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ui.rs
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ const JAPANESE: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
     ("Add a shape, fill, stroke or path operation", "シェイプ、塗り、線、またはパス操作を追加"),
     ("Add to Composition", "コンポジションに追加"),
     ("Add to Favorites", "お気に入りに追加"),
-    ("Add:", "追加:"),
+    ("Add:", "追加："),
     ("Adjust Exposure (stops)", "露出を調整（段単位）"),
     ("Adjust composition duration to the time span of the selected layers", "コンポジションのデュレーションを、選択したレイヤーの時間範囲に合わせる"),
     ("Advanced", "詳細"),
@@ -636,7 +636,12 @@ const JAPANESE: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
     ),
     ("VR Environments", "VR環境"),
     ("Value:", "値:"),
-    ("Variable Font Axes", "可変フォントの軸"),
+    ("Variable Font Axes", "バリアブルフォント軸"),
+    ("Selector: Range", "セレクター: 範囲"),
+    ("Selector: Wiggly", "セレクター: ウィグリー"),
+    ("Selector: Expression", "セレクター: エクスプレッション"),
+    ("Property: {}", "プロパティ: {}"),
+    ("Variable Font Axes: {}", "バリアブルフォント軸: {}"),
     ("Video Codec: {}", "ビデオコーデック：{}"),
     ("View:", "表示:"),
     ("Welcome to EffectCraft", "EffectCraftへようこそ"),
@@ -683,9 +688,9 @@ const JAPANESE: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
     ("Adobe-style built-in", "Adobe標準の組み込み"),
     ("Blue", "青"),
     ("Current Settings", "現在の設定"),
-    ("Disable Per-character 3D", "文字ごとの3Dを無効化"),
+    ("Disable Per-character 3D", "文字単位の 3D 化を使用しない"),
     ("Draft", "ドラフト"),
-    ("Enable Per-character 3D", "文字ごとの3Dを有効化"),
+    ("Enable Per-character 3D", "文字単位の 3D 化を使用"),
     ("Fast Draft", "高速ドラフト"),
     ("Fast Previews (Draft 3D, Faster Effects)", "高速プレビュー（ドラフト3D、より高速なエフェクト）"),
     ("Green", "緑"),
@@ -1074,20 +1079,23 @@ const JAPANESE: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
     ("Rove Across Time", "時間をまたいで移動"),
     ("Anchor Point", "アンカーポイント"),
     ("All Transform Properties", "すべてのトランスフォームプロパティ"),
-    ("Line Anchor", "行のアンカー"),
-    ("Line Spacing", "行間"),
+    ("Animate:", "アニメーター："),
+    ("Add property or selector", "プロパティまたはセレクターを追加"),
+    ("Animate text", "テキストをアニメート"),
+    ("Line Anchor", "ラインアンカー"),
+    ("Line Spacing", "ラインスペース"),
     ("Character Offset", "文字のオフセット"),
-    ("Character Value", "文字の値"),
-    ("Fill Color: RGB", "塗りの色: RGB"),
-    ("Fill Color: Hue", "塗りの色: 色相"),
-    ("Fill Color: Saturation", "塗りの色: 彩度"),
-    ("Fill Color: Brightness", "塗りの色: 明るさ"),
-    ("Fill Color: Opacity", "塗りの色: 不透明度"),
-    ("Stroke Color: RGB", "線の色: RGB"),
-    ("Stroke Color: Hue", "線の色: 色相"),
-    ("Stroke Color: Saturation", "線の色: 彩度"),
-    ("Stroke Color: Brightness", "線の色: 明るさ"),
-    ("Stroke Color: Opacity", "線の色: 不透明度"),
+    ("Character Value", "文字コード"),
+    ("Fill Color: RGB", "塗りのカラー: RGB"),
+    ("Fill Color: Hue", "塗りのカラー: 色相"),
+    ("Fill Color: Saturation", "塗りのカラー: 彩度"),
+    ("Fill Color: Brightness", "塗りのカラー: 明るさ"),
+    ("Fill Color: Opacity", "塗りのカラー: 不透明度"),
+    ("Stroke Color: RGB", "線のカラー: RGB"),
+    ("Stroke Color: Hue", "線のカラー: 色相"),
+    ("Stroke Color: Saturation", "線のカラー: 彩度"),
+    ("Stroke Color: Brightness", "線のカラー: 明るさ"),
+    ("Stroke Color: Opacity", "線のカラー: 不透明度"),
     ("Stroke Width", "線幅"),
     ("Front: Color", "前面: 色"),
     ("Bevel: Color", "ベベル: 色"),
@@ -10394,7 +10402,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(tr("Media Duration"), "メディアの長さ");
         assert_eq!(tr("Bring Layer to Front"), "レイヤーを最前面へ");
         assert_eq!(tr("All Transform Properties"), "すべてのトランスフォームプロパティ");
-        assert_eq!(tr("Fill Color: RGB"), "塗りの色: RGB");
+        assert_eq!(tr("Fill Color: RGB"), "塗りのカラー: RGB");
         assert_eq!(tr("Lines added"), "追加行数");
         // The composition-settings tabs and the Preview transport pass these through `tr` as
         // variables, so a missing row would fall back to English unnoticed.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/timeline.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/timeline.rs
index a1522f501..246084cc1 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/timeline.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/timeline.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ use egui::{Align2, Color32, Pos2, Rect, Sense, Stroke, StrokeKind, pos2, vec2};
 use serde_json::json;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-use crate::i18n::tr;
+use crate::i18n::{tr, tr_args};
 use crate::icons::{self, Icon};
 use crate::theme::Tokens;
 use crate::{EffectcraftApp, widgets};
@@ -5227,13 +5227,18 @@ fn text_anim_popups(
         "animator" => ("Add:", "add"),
         _ => return,
     };
-    p.text(pos2(x + 6.0, cy), Align2::LEFT_CENTER, label, Tokens::ui(11.5), t.text_dim);
-    let br = Rect::from_center_size(pos2(x + 6.0 + if key == "add" { 34.0 } else { 62.0 }, cy), vec2(16.0, 16.0));
-    let resp = ui.interact(br, egui::Id::unique(("tl-textanim", uid)), Sense::click()).on_hover_text(if key == "add" {
+    // The label is the English source; the drawn text is the catalog's, so the row reads
+    // アニメーター： as Animation ▸ Animate Text does. The button follows the width the label
+    // actually takes, since a translation is rarely as wide as the English it replaces.
+    let galley = p.layout_no_wrap(tr(label).to_string(), Tokens::ui(11.5), t.text_dim);
+    let text_w = galley.size().x;
+    p.galley(pos2(x + 6.0, cy - galley.size().y / 2.0), galley, t.text_dim);
+    let br = Rect::from_center_size(pos2(x + 6.0 + text_w + 10.0, cy), vec2(16.0, 16.0));
+    let resp = ui.interact(br, egui::Id::unique(("tl-textanim", uid)), Sense::click()).on_hover_text(tr(if key == "add" {
         "Add property or selector"
     } else {
         "Animate text"
-    });
+    }));
     icons::paint(p, br.shrink(3.0), Icon::ChevronRight, if resp.hovered() { t.text } else { t.text_dim });
     app.auto.add(&format!("timeline.group.{uid}.{key}"), br, label);
     let pop = egui::Id::unique(("tl-textanim-pop", uid));
@@ -5249,7 +5254,11 @@ fn text_anim_popups(
         opts.push("-".into());
         acts.push((String::new(), json!(null)));
         for (k, l) in TEXT_ANIMATOR_KINDS {
-            opts.push(l.to_string());
+            // The engine names these. `command_label` asks the menu for the row Animation ▸ Animate
+            // Text uses and falls back to the panel catalog, which holds the split names the menu
+            // does not list (`Fill Color: RGB` and the other colour rows), so no item is left in
+            // English. A separator is not a label.
+            opts.push(if *k == "-" { "-".into() } else { crate::i18n::command_label("layer.addTextAnimator", l).to_string() });
             acts.push(if *k == "-" { (String::new(), json!(null)) } else { ("layer.addTextAnimator".into(), json!({"layer": layer.id.0, "property": k})) });
         }
         // Variable Font Axes of the layer's font.
@@ -5261,19 +5270,19 @@ fn text_anim_popups(
                 acts.push((String::new(), json!(null)));
             }
             for a in axes {
-                opts.push(format!("Variable Font Axes: {}", a.name));
+                opts.push(tr_args("Variable Font Axes: {}", &[&a.name]));
                 acts.push(("text.animatorFontAxes".into(), json!({"layer": layer.id.0, "axis": a.tag})));
             }
         }
     } else {
         for (kind, l) in [("range", "Selector: Range"), ("wiggly", "Selector: Wiggly"), ("expression", "Selector: Expression")] {
-            opts.push(l.into());
+            opts.push(tr(l).to_string());
             acts.push(("layer.addTextSelector".into(), json!({"layer": layer.id.0, "animator": uid, "kind": kind})));
         }
         opts.push("-".into());
         acts.push((String::new(), json!(null)));
         for (k, l) in TEXT_ANIMATOR_KINDS {
-            opts.push(if *k == "-" { "-".into() } else { format!("Property: {l}") });
+            opts.push(if *k == "-" { "-".into() } else { tr_args("Property: {}", &[&crate::i18n::command_label("layer.addTextAnimator", l)]) });
             acts.push(if *k == "-" {
                 (String::new(), json!(null))
             } else {