Bold markup finally works with Japanese! See this announcement on Meta.StackExchange:
Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works
Until now, we've been working around this problem by using <strong>
and <b>
because the normal markup for bolding, **
, didn't work without spaces between words. But now it does:
文字を太字にする
So we can finally use **
here on Japanese.SE! Yippee!