is an

input method An input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated IME) is an operating system component or program that enables users to generate characters not natively available on their input devices by using sequences of characters (or mouse ...

published by

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for the entry of Japanese text on a computer. Since its dictionaries are generated automatically from the

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, it supports typing of

personal name A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is know ...

s, Internet slang, neologisms and related terms. Google also releases an

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version without stable releases or quality assurance under the name mozc. As it is open source, it can be used on Linux-based systems, whereas Google Japanese Input is limited to

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, and

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. It does not use Google's closed-source algorithms for generating dictionary data from online sources.

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Japanese Input Japanese input methods are used to input Japanese characters on a computer. There are two main methods of inputting Japanese on computers. One is via a romanized version of Japanese called '' rōmaji'' (literally "Roman character"), and the o ...

Input methods Japanese-language computing 2009 software {{Software-stub

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