Japanese IME not working

Hi, the Japanese IME is not working on Windows 7.

Any help would help.

everything was fine when I was using Windows XP.

any explanations would help.

I tried to search the forums but the search function

seems to be broken atm...

any help would help.

Thank you.

the IME icon won't even show up with the plugin loaded.

I got it to work,

just go to: control panel > change keyboards or other input method > administrative > change system locale > japanese

I'm having the same issue works fine with XP but 7 its not changing over when i press the button Alt and ~ doesn't switch over at all. What do you mean by change keyboards or other input method can you add pictures ?

ok ill try to help you...

in Windows 7, click Control Panel, then right under "Clock, Language, and Region" there should be a highlightable link that says

"Change Keyboards or Other Input Method" click that, then go to administrative, change system locale, set it to Japanese. Then it should work.

To toggle Japanese on and off, just hit the ~(tilda) key or your upper left most key.

you don't need to hold down Alt with windows 7. Atleast that is how it works for me.

ok ill try to help you...

in Windows 7, click Control Panel, then right under "Clock, Language, and Region" there should be a highlightable link that says

"Change Keyboards or Other Input Method" click that, then go to administrative, change system locale, set it to Japanese. Then it should work.

 

To toggle Japanese on and off, just hit the ~(tilda) key or your upper left most key.

you don't need to hold down Alt with windows 7. Atleast that is how it works for me.

ya thats my issue i hit that key and it doesn change when i have clicked on final fantasy. Its not changing when i try to change

by clickiing on differnt program it changes just fine then i click back to final fatnasy it goes back to english or doesnt change from hiragana

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Till last update, the IME plugin worked (well, even though I had to have the windows IME graphic keyboard choose menu always up so I could change between Direct Input and Hiragana with the mouse all the time, 'cus yes, Ctrl + ~ haven't worked on windows 8 for a long time).

But now it doesn't work at all anymore, every time I choose hiragana from the windows IME menu and try to type characters they don't become green and only a few apostrophes appear, then the windows IME menu changes immediately to direct input. 

Any feedback on that, any information will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Is there a fix to the IME?  It isn't working...

I'm wondering if there is a fix to this as well.