\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 05633051} \itemau{Mal'kovskii, M.G.; Zhalybin, P.P.} \itemti{Formal description of natural language in an instrumental environment for Japanese text processing.} \itemso{Mosc. Univ. Comput. Math. Cybern. 31, No. 2, 79-82 (2007); translation from Vestn. Mosk. Univ., Ser. XV 2007, No. 2, 44-49 (2007).} \itemab Summary: In the paper, a formal tool for description of the Japanese language in the instrumental environment NIHONGO is considered. It is based on a special list-type object-oriented language with the possibility of pattern matching. The main functional and descriptive possibilities of the language are exemplified with the morphological component of a Japanese linguistic processor. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{} \itemli{doi:10.3103/S0278641907020070} \end