diff --git a/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/__init__.py b/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/__init__.py
index 0ce7a99d..30d963e8 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/__init__.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-from .text import japanese_text2phone
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+from .text import japanese_text2phone
diff --git a/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text.py b/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text.py
index 4c8936ac..3a705352 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 import re
 import MeCab
-from typing import List, Tuple
 
 _CONVRULES = [
     # Conversion of 2 letters
@@ -364,7 +363,7 @@ def text2kata(text: str) -> str:
         else:
             if word in _SYMBOL_TOKENS:
                 res.append(word)
-            elif word == 'っ' or word == 'ッ':
+            elif word in ('っ', 'ッ'):
                 res.append('ッ')
             elif word in _NO_YOMI_TOKENS:
                 pass
@@ -377,4 +376,4 @@ def japanese_text2phone(text: str) -> str:
     """
     res = text2kata(text)
     res = kata2phoneme(res)
-    return res.replace(' ', '')
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+    return res.replace(' ', '')
diff --git a/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text_test.py b/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text_test.py
index 7a04925a..d3ade826 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text_test.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/utils/japanese/text_test.py
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ class TestText(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(japanese_text2phone(text), phone)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    unittest.main()
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+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/TTS/tts/utils/text/__init__.py b/TTS/tts/utils/text/__init__.py
index 9b63e7f1..d7423102 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/utils/text/__init__.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/utils/text/__init__.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ def text2phone(text, language):
     if language == "zh-CN":
         ph = chinese_text_to_phonemes(text)
         return ph
-    elif language == "ja-jp":
+
+    if language == "ja-jp":
         from TTS.tts.utils.japanese import japanese_text2phone
         ph = japanese_text2phone(text)
         return ph