An image forming apparatus having a display unit which displays system information and job information on such as a job execution state, comprising: a storage unit which stores in plural kinds of languages the job information displayed on the display unit; a job storage unit which stores plural jobs being executed and on standby; a language type extracting unit which extracts language types registered in the jobs from the jobs stored in the job storage unit; and a display control unit which acquires from the storage unit the job information in a language matching the language type extracted by the language type extracting unit, and displays on the display unit the job information on the job stored in the job storage unit by using the acquired display information.