diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 3c77e7770..4e6cfdd3f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Bugs fixed
   ``object.__init__`` docstring when class does not have ``__init__``.
   This caused by a change for #1138.
 
+* #1340: Can't search alphabetical words on the HTML quick search generated
+  with language='ja'.
+
 
 Release 1.2 (released Dec 10, 2013)
 ===================================
diff --git a/sphinx/search/ja.py b/sphinx/search/ja.py
index f0deb154e..099f4717d 100644
--- a/sphinx/search/ja.py
+++ b/sphinx/search/ja.py
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ class TinySegmenter(object):
             score += self.ts_(self.TQ4__, p3 + c2 + c3 + c4)
             p = u'O'
             if score > 0:
-                result.append(word)
+                result.append(word.strip())
                 word = u''
                 p = u'B'
             p1 = p2
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ class TinySegmenter(object):
             p3 = p
             word += seg[i]
 
-        result.append(word)
+        result.append(word.strip())
         return result