I have been using Anthy on Ubuntu for quite some time, and I think that it has worked perfectly up until 9.4. I didn’t have time to explore that release so much, but I noticed now that in 10.04 the Japanese input does not work out of the box.

First thing first; install language support if you haven’t done that. (System->Administration->Language Support-> Install)

Install Anthy if you haven’t done so:

sudo apt-get install scim scim-anthy anthy kasumi scim-tables-ja

sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-anthy ibus-gtk ibus-qt4

Next, add Japanese input through the IBus. (System->Preferences->IBus Preferences-> Input Method tab)

Now, we can type in 日本語 again! The familiar panel in the lower right corner will appear if you touch the 半角/全角-button. Note that it will not appear if you are not in a text-input area.

In February I’m finally going back to Japan. First stop is of course Fukuoka, but I plan to do some travel around the country. Especially I’m planning to go to Hokkaido so I’ll definitely put up some pics here.

I have a long list of things that I have to do during me short stay, but I’m expecting to get them all done!

• Eat too much tonkotsu ramen
• Play Tekken6, and win at least one game
• Go to an izakaya
• more,more,more!