Should you respect Japanese punctuation rules when citing something using Japanese characters?

Question

From the Wikipedia page on Japanese punctuation:

Double quotation marks (二重鉤括弧, nijūkagikakko) are used to mark quotes within quotes: 「...『...』...」 as well as to mark book titles (Japanese does not have italic type, and does not use sloping type for this purpose in Japanese.) They are also sometimes used in fiction to denote text that is heard through a telephone or other device.

Wikipedia says that these quotation marks are used to mark Japanese books, so I was wondering if I should respect Japanese punctuation rules when providing the English and the Japanese name of the book when the Japanese book was traanslated into English so that the people reading my text can immediately read the Japanese book to see if the quoted passage in my book or my own interpretation might be wrong due to translation errors.

Answer 1

Think of the opposite situation. If the text would be in Japanese, would you use Japanese formatting for parts of the text that are in English? If the text is in English, I recommend using English formatting.

As a side note, I would not use quotation marks on a book title, if not requested by the publisher explicitly.

Answer 2

The basic and universal rule is that you must cite a source exactly as it is given. This means that if you cite text with different punctuation, of course you reproduce that punctuation exactly.

For example, citing Spanish in English text:

This is a citation of a Spanish text: “¿Has ido alguna vez a España?” Did you notice the upside down question markt at the beginning of the sentence? I'm sure you did.

Quotation marks are an exception to this rule when citing from languages written using Latin letters. For example, the French guillemets (and the thin space surrounding them) of the original French source are turned to curly quotes (and no space) when you cite it in an English text.

The original French

L’ouvreuse m’a dit : « Donnez-moi votre ticket. » Je le lui ai donné.

becomes

This is a citation from French: “L’ouvreuse m’a dit : ‘Donnez-moi votre ticket.’ Je le lui ai donné.”

But non-Latin alphabets are treated differently. The MLA Handbook says (section 6.76, paywalled): "Quotations from works in a language not written in the Latin alphabet (e.g., Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian) should be given consistently in the original writing system or in transliteration." (my emphasis)

This means that if you don't transliterate your text, you retain the original Japanese quotes and punctuation.

Other style guides (Chicago, APA) make the same recommendation.