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Originally Posted by lecoeur
I can't help but notice that whilst everything is in Japanese, in the pictures it displays a qwerty keyboard which I assume could cause a bit of confusion in searching for books with Japanese titles  |
ALL Japanese computers use a qwerty keyboard. However, there are some differences between the English language keyboard and the Japanese; the space bar on the Japanese keyboard is very small as there are no spaces used between words. The apostrophe is found on the #2 key instead of under the Quote mark, and the @ is in a different location. All the keys provide for the phonetic sounds of the Japanese syllabary. For example, the A key gives both the Hiragana and Katakana 'ah' sound, and there is a special key for switching back and forth. After writing a word in Hiragana, the computer will show a list of possible Kanji that can be used in place of the phonetic spelling, to give the correct written form.
It does take longer to type in Japanese, but unless you are writing a multi-page document it's not a problem.
Stitchawl