Ah, right... as there are no spaces between the kanji, they'll end up in the same text object.
If I set,
\XeTeXlinebreaklocale="ja-JP" \XeTeXlinebreakskip=0pt plus 1pt minus 0pt even an individual kanji can be 'selected', 'copied' and 'pasted', even in the case of Adobe Acrobat XI Pro. Best, Akira -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex