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Writing Japanese on Linux

For the screenshots, we tested it on Mint. However, the solution is actually very similar on any desktop based Linux distribution.

In the System Settings select "Input Method":

Select Input Method

Select Japanese and select "install" in order to install the language support packages:

Install Japanese language support packages

For additional software press "continue":

additional software

Now, for the Input method framework, select Fcitx:

Select Fcitx

Select the keyboard icon in the task bar and then select "Configure".

Select the keyboard icon in the task bar and then select

Add Mozc as a new Input Method:

Add Mozc as a new Input Method

In order to find Mozc you might have to toggle "Only Show Current Language".


After that, restart the system.


Open your favourite editing tool, e.g. LibreOffice writer.

With Ctrl-Space change to Mozc:

Change to Mozc

Now you can enter Latin letters, which will be converted into Japanese. Depending on what you wrote, you will get different proposals of which you can choose:

write Japanese entering Latin letters

Note that, while you are writing in Mozc mode, the keyboard icon in the task bar changes its appearance:

keyboard icon in the task bar