Japanese Text input on Macintosh
I recently started learning Japanese and I wanted to type Japanese characters on my Macintosh.
Choose Apple Menu (That is the blue apple logo on the top left-hand corner) > System Preferences, and click International (Under Personal). Go to the Input Menu tab (The third tab from the left) and select the Kotoeri Input Method. (Screenshot)
I selected the support for Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji Japanese Writing system.
Once finished, the Romaji, Hiragana, Katakana, language will be available under the input menu in menu bar. Go to the input menu on your menu bar and click on show input mode palette.
The input mode palette is floating somewhere on your screen, and lets you switch between English, Romaji, Hiragana/Kanji, Katakana. Clicking on the American (or Australian) flag will switch the input mode back into English.
I can now type using Japanese character on my Mac. Not all application support other languages though, you have to check the application manual to find out.
Most Macintosh application I use supports Japanese/Chinese character. The applications I tested to work with Japanese text input are Safari, Mail.app, Proteus, and TextEdit.
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