fonts-vlgothic software package provides Japanese TrueType font from Vine Linux, 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-vlgothic
fonts-vlgothic is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fonts-vlgothic package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fonts-vlgothic *
You will get with fonts-vlgothic package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Fonts |
| Package | fonts-vlgothic |
| Version | 20141206-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | Japanese TrueType font from Vine Linux |
| Sub Section | Fonts |