diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 4617624686b1f3..25d4e24ac162a9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1132,7 +1132,8 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | cp875           |                                | Greek                          |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| cp932           | 932, ms932, mskanji, ms-kanji  | Japanese                       |
+| cp932           | 932, ms932, mskanji, ms-kanji, | Japanese                       |
+|                 | windows-31j                    |                                |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | cp949           | 949, ms949, uhc                | Korean                         |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
index d85afd6d5cf704..6a5ca046b5eb6c 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@
     'ms932'              : 'cp932',
     'mskanji'            : 'cp932',
     'ms_kanji'           : 'cp932',
+    'windows_31j'        : 'cp932',
 
     # cp949 codec
     '949'                : 'cp949',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-03-03-09-05-42.gh-issue-102389.ucmo0_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-03-03-09-05-42.gh-issue-102389.ucmo0_.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..8c11567d79ba7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-03-03-09-05-42.gh-issue-102389.ucmo0_.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add ``windows_31j`` to aliases for ``cp932`` codec