diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index a4eb21098..4640a67ed 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # assign templates to the language team that owns them
 synthtool/gcp/templates/java_library/          @googleapis/yoshi-java
+synthtool/languages/java.py                    @googleapis/yoshi-java
 synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/          @googleapis/yoshi-nodejs
 synthtool/gcp/templates/node_split_library/    @googleapis/yoshi-nodejs
 synthtool/gcp/templates/php_library/           @googleapis/yoshi-php