diff --git a/packages/kbn-i18n/package.json b/packages/kbn-i18n/package.json
index 0897df5f56f9..af7485773acb 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-i18n/package.json
+++ b/packages/kbn-i18n/package.json
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
     "@babel/preset-typescript": "^7.1.0",
     "@kbn/dev-utils": "1.0.0",
     "@types/intl-relativeformat": "^2.1.0",
-    "@types/json5": "^0.0.30",
     "@types/react-intl": "^2.3.11",
     "del": "^3.0.0",
     "getopts": "^2.2.3",
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@
     "intl-format-cache": "^2.1.0",
     "intl-messageformat": "^2.2.0",
     "intl-relativeformat": "^2.1.0",
-    "json5": "^2.0.1",
     "prop-types": "^15.6.2",
     "react": "^16.3.0",
     "react-intl": "^2.7.0"
diff --git a/packages/kbn-i18n/src/__fixtures__/test_plugin_2/translations/fr.json b/packages/kbn-i18n/src/__fixtures__/test_plugin_2/translations/fr.json
index 88d3f27d9126..e6207873f600 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-i18n/src/__fixtures__/test_plugin_2/translations/fr.json
+++ b/packages/kbn-i18n/src/__fixtures__/test_plugin_2/translations/fr.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  messages: {
-    test: 'test' // JSON5 test
+  "messages": {
+    "test": "test"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.test.ts b/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.test.ts
index 72cfeb09974a..ed9715d7bd62 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.test.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.test.ts
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ describe('I18n loader', () => {
       });
     });
 
-    test('should return translation messages from JSON5 file', async () => {
+    test('should return translation messages from JSON file', async () => {
       i18nLoader.registerTranslationFile(
         join(__dirname, './__fixtures__/test_plugin_2/translations/fr.json')
       );
diff --git a/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.ts b/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.ts
index 6efafc18ae79..2d68079735c0 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-i18n/src/loader.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
  */
 
 import { readFile } from 'fs';
-import * as JSON5 from 'json5';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { promisify } from 'util';
 
@@ -65,12 +64,12 @@ function getLocaleFromFileName(fullFileName: string) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Loads file and parses it as JSON5
+ * Loads file and parses it as JSON
  * @param pathToFile
  * @returns
  */
 async function loadFile(pathToFile: string): Promise<Translation> {
-  return JSON5.parse(await asyncReadFile(pathToFile, 'utf8'));
+  return JSON.parse(await asyncReadFile(pathToFile, 'utf8'));
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 8b88378b77ff..39a8d63fcb81 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1306,11 +1306,6 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/json-stable-stringify/-/json-stable-stringify-1.0.32.tgz#121f6917c4389db3923640b2e68de5fa64dda88e"
   integrity sha512-q9Q6+eUEGwQkv4Sbst3J4PNgDOvpuVuKj79Hl/qnmBMEIPzB5QoFRUtjcgcg2xNUZyYUGXBk5wYIBKHt0A+Mxw==
 
-"@types/json5@^0.0.30":
-  version "0.0.30"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/json5/-/json5-0.0.30.tgz#44cb52f32a809734ca562e685c6473b5754a7818"
-  integrity sha512-sqm9g7mHlPY/43fcSNrCYfOeX9zkTTK+euO5E6+CVijSMm5tTjkVdwdqRkY3ljjIAf8679vps5jKUoJBCLsMDA==
-
 "@types/jsonwebtoken@^7.2.7":
   version "7.2.8"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/jsonwebtoken/-/jsonwebtoken-7.2.8.tgz#8d199dab4ddb5bba3234f8311b804d2027af2b3a"
@@ -12463,13 +12458,6 @@ json5@^1.0.1:
   dependencies:
     minimist "^1.2.0"
 
-json5@^2.0.1:
-  version "2.0.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/json5/-/json5-2.0.1.tgz#3d6d0d1066039eb50984e66a7840e4f4b7a2c660"
-  integrity sha512-t6N/86QDIRYvOL259jR5c5TbtMnekl2Ib314mGeMh37zAwjgbWHieqijPH7pWaogmJq1F2I4Sphg19U1s+ZnXQ==
-  dependencies:
-    minimist "^1.2.0"
-
 jsonfile@^3.0.0:
   version "3.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/jsonfile/-/jsonfile-3.0.1.tgz#a5ecc6f65f53f662c4415c7675a0331d0992ec66"