diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/jumanpp/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/jumanpp/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c4cb12cb6938
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/jumanpp/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, protobuf }:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "jumanpp";
+  version = "2.0.0-rc2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/ku-nlp/${name}/releases/download/v${version}/${name}-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "17fzmd0f5m9ayfhsr0mg7hjp3pg1mhbgknhgyd8v87x46g8bg6qp";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [ cmake protobuf ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A Japanese morphological analyser using a recurrent neural network language model (RNNLM)";
+    longDescription = ''
+      JUMAN++ is a new morphological analyser that considers semantic
+      plausibility of word sequences by using a recurrent neural network
+      language model (RNNLM).
+    '';
+    homepage = http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN++;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ mt-caret ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c109e32e6e41..0f7f33a6804d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3397,6 +3397,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ispell = callPackage ../tools/text/ispell {};
 
+  jumanpp = callPackage ../tools/text/jumanpp {};
+
   kindlegen = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/kindlegen { };
 
   latex2html = callPackage ../tools/misc/latex2html { };