Japanese Date in this format

Question

I\'m wanting show the Date in Japanese in this format:

2010年2月18日(木)

which translates to:

February 18, 2010 (Thu)

in PHP

This is the

Answer 1

This post is pretty old, but in case someone is still looking for an answer, this worked well for me:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "ja_JP.utf8"); 
$date_format = "%Y年%B%e日(%a)";                  

$date_string = strftime($date_format, time())