fonts-ipafont-gothic software package provides Japanese OpenType font set, IPA Gothic font, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fonts-ipafont-gothic
fonts-ipafont-gothic is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fonts-ipafont-gothic package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fonts-ipafont-gothic *
You will get with fonts-ipafont-gothic package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Fonts |
| Package | fonts-ipafont-gothic |
| Version | 00303-13ubuntu1 |
| Description | Japanese OpenType font set, IPA Gothic font |
| Sub Section | Fonts |