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Hi , Mark. >partially-Japanese-ised environment. The K menu is mostly in Japanese. Great! >(romaji as the Japanese call them). Can anyone guess what stupid mistake >I have made? I did install the fonts packages recommended on the wiki >page... You may create ja_JP.UTF-8 locale using dpgk-reconfigure locale if you have not created it. And, -right click the ibus icon on the task bar -select "Preferences" on the menu -"iBus Preferences" window shows up , and click "Input Method" tab. - then , input methods list appears . and if you can not see "Japanese-Anthy" on that list, press "Add" button , select "japanese" , and then select "Anthy" , then Japanese-Anthy should be added on the Input Method list. After that, win key + space key switches throurgh input methods. select Anthy with it , then you should be able to use Japanese. And , left click on the Anthy icon , select "input mode" on the menu, you can choose input mode ( hiragana , katakana , direct input , so on) Hope this helps.