I use a reg file rather than hunting through the Registry but doing it manually only takes a few minutes. Luckily, Microsoft has supplied the template with Windows but it's buried.Īctually changing the keyboard template is a very easy Registry tweak. The kind you would be in any store in Japan. This means many of the keys on your keyboard come out wrong, or not at all!Īctually, what most people need is a 106 key standard Hiragana keyboard template.
Windows always installs a Japanese 101 key keyboard template when Japanese language is added to English Windows. Wrong!!Īll versions of Windows from 95 to 8 have had the same fundamental problem that Microsoft has NEVER corrected. You would think it would be easy just to add a Japanese keyboard template to your English Windows. Easy! If you live or work in Japan, you have little easy choice but to buy a Japanese keyboard. So you want to type English, on a Japanese keyboard, with English Windows.
