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Steps 1 Click on the Apple menu and then System Preferences. It's the black apple icon in the upper-left corner of the screen. The addition of a new language will also add a 'List sort order' menu, which you can use to adjust how names are sorted in Finder, if a language offers an order other than the Universal default.
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This site describes how to use Japanese on a Macintosh computer, particularly for people who use a Mac predominantly in English but also want to read, write, browse, and email in Japanese. This front page contains information on activating Japanese support in Mac OS: start by following the instructions below, then consult the other pages on the site for information on specific tasks and applications: email, web browsing, dictionary software, etc.
The instructions on this site are up to date for Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra), but you can use them with very slight changes for earlier versions of Mac OS X. (For significantly older systems, see the 'Other Resources' page on this site.)
Getting Started: How to Enable Japanese Input in Mac OS
Today using Japanese with the Mac is relatively seamless. Mac OS comes installed with support for reading and editing Japanese--in documents, in email, and on the web. If you receive Japanese email in Apple's Mail application or go to a Japanese web page in Safari, the Japanese will probably display correctly without your doing anything special or reading any further on this page. If this does not work smoothly, if you want to enable additional features in these programs, or if you want to input Japanese text (to create documents, do web searches, or send email in Japanese, for example), you'll need to take some extra steps. These are described below, and on the other pages of this site.
To enable input in Japanese (or other Asian languages), go to System Preferences from the Apple menu, click on the blue flag icon labeled Language & Region. Click on the button marked with a plus sign in the lower left to add a new language, then select Japanese from the menu and click the Add button. You will be asked you if you would like to use Japanese as your primary language; for now choose 'Use English,' unless you want the menus and dialogs in the finder and other applications to switch to Japanese.
If you have a trackpad, you may also want to repeat this process to add 'Traditional Chinese' or 'Simplified Chinese,' which will bring up a second window allowing you to choose the 'Trackpad Handwriting' option. This will let you enter kanji characters by drawing them on the trackpad.
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The next step is to set the options for Japanese input. Click on the 'Keyboard Preferences…' button at the bottom of the Language & Region window, which will take you directly to the Input Sources tab of the Keyboard Preferences pane. From the menu on the left, choose 'Japanese.' (If you have an older versions of MacOS, this may say 'kotoeri', which was the earlier, more poetic name of the Japanese input method). You'll see the different Japanese input preference options. Set them as follows to start out:
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- Uncheck the 'Live Conversion' box for now.
- Scroll down a little further in the panel (past the content shown below) and find an option called 'Predictive Candidates'; it should be unchecked.
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For a guide to entering text in Japanese, see the page on Typing in Japanese, elsewhere on this site. For an introduction to using Japanese with different applications, see the pages on Text Editors, Dictionaries, and Browsers. All of these are accessible from the navigation bar at left.
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