This is all in addition to supporting the Kana characters, which make up the rest of Japanese writing (more on that in a minute). If you need to input Japanese, this is a dream come true.

That’s the idea behind KanaChord, which generates Unicode macros to render Japanese Kana characters using chords — pressing multiple keys at once as you would on a piano. The Japanese writing ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

But in line with a government move to digitalize administrative procedures, the Family Register Act was revised in 2023, which set a rule that kana characters used to display the pronunciation of ...