diff --git a/script/pull_translations.rb b/script/pull_translations.rb
index 8870974c5e6..c8283486196 100755
--- a/script/pull_translations.rb
+++ b/script/pull_translations.rb
@@ -12,11 +12,17 @@ def expand_path(path)
   File.expand_path("../../#{path}", __FILE__)
 end
 
+# List of locales that will break Discourse and need to be fixed
+# by translators in Transifex.
+def broken_locales
+  ['ja']
+end
+
 def supported_locales
   Dir.glob(expand_path('config/locales/client.*.yml'))
     .map { |x| x.split('.')[-2] }
     .select { |x| x != 'en' }
-    .sort
+    .sort - broken_locales
 end
 
 YML_DIRS = ['config/locales',