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Cooperative principle is a principle in communication to make speakers and listeners to be coordinative for achieve communication’s aims. In cooperative principle, there are maxims accordance cooperative principle. Speakers must give truth speech, be brief, do not more informative than its required, and make it clear. Sometimes people didn’t contribute in communication, and make utterance float the maxims. This floating maxim creates the implicature. Implicature is one of pragmatic’s scope discussed about conveyed meaning in utterances. Meanwhile pragmatic is a scope of speakers meaning which implicature has truth conditional meaning conveyed by speakers. But, only conversational implicature create by floating maxim. Implicature can be find in every language such as Japanese. It supported by ideology called aimai to make ambiguous speech. As the background, this research is to find floating maxim in implicature in Japanese. Floating maxims by Grice used for theory in this research. The method that used was descriptive analysis. Data source in anime and Japanese drama to find implicature in Japanese. The result of this research is maxim of relation were founded dominant. It according to the aims of communication, and other side speaker has different aims with their partner. Floating of relation maxim used for for showing disinterest, admiration, and sarcasm.