>LANG=C sort japanese.txt | diff japanese.txt -
あたる
+あっしゅく
あつい
あつかう
-あっしゅく
あつまり
あつめる
あてな
あてはまる
あひる
+あふれる
あぶら
あぶる
-あふれる
あまい
...
So in the word list っ and つ are sorted as the same letter. This may be standard for japanese localization, but if you don't have this localization installed you get a different order. The bad thing is that the binary-search method in the bip39 mnemonics tool doesn't work if the list is not sorted. Thus, for example, the unit tests of python-mnemonics fail.