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 ...

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.

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 ...