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Viewing Japanese in Web Browsers

With the multitude of Japanese only pages available here at the Turnpike, I've been asked for help in viewing those pages without having the actual Japanese operating system. Here are some suggestions.

Any OS - Windows OS - Macintosh OS

Any Operating System

Shodouka
Easily one of the most useful sites on web.
Shodouka allows you to enter the web site address of a page and then replaces the Japanese text on that page with a corresponding kanji/kana image.
Very nifty and quick.

Windows 95/98

Netscape Communicator 4.5
(with Microsoft Japanese Multilanguage Support)
Yes! You can use the MSGothic font provided by the Internet Explorer Microsoft Japanese multilanguage support to read Japanese on Netscape 4.0 browsers! After downloading a Netscape 4.0 version browser and the Japanese extensions:
  1. Go to the Edit menu and select Preferences.
  2. In the Appearance-Fonts area, set For the Encoding to Japanese and select MS Gothic for both Variable Width Font and Fixed Width Font.
  3. In the Navigator-Languages area, add Japanese [ja] to the list.
Voila! No need for that Japanese helper application. ^_^

Note: You may need to change the Encoding (In the View menu)
selection to one of the Japanese settings (Auto-Detect preferred)
in order to see the Japanese text.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01
(with Japanese Extensions)
By downloading Internet Explorer and Japanese Multilanguage Support, you'll end up with a browser which views any Japanese page perfectly.
Works with Internet Explorer 3.0 as well.

Note: You may need to change the Encoding (In the View/Fonts menu)
selection to one of the Japanese settings (Auto Select preferred)
in order to see the Japanese text.

Windows 3.1/95/98

MView 4.5
An excellent shareware program which allows you to read Japanese,
Chinese and Korean on any of your Windows programs.

Even includes auto-detect options for Japanese and Chinese so you don't have to keep changing from EUC to SJIS and so forth. It is unique in that it offers free larger size fonts available for download, which makes your viewing that much more enjoyable. (2678K)

NJWin 1.6
 The very popular shareware program, very similar to MView. For more information, check out the NJWIN CJK Multilingual Support System for Windows 95 page. (1463K)

TwinBridge AsianViewer 1.1
A commercial program very similar to MView, but without the auto-detect option. For more information, check out the TwinBridge AsianViewer page. Also check out Twinbridge's Internet Series page for similar products. (1437K)

Macintosh
Since I don't have a Mac, I haven't been able to check these out personally.
However, all of these programs have been suggested by multiple
users (Thanks guys!), so you might want to give them a try.

MacOS 8.5
 The latest version of the Macintosh operating system comes with
the ability to view multilingual content in both Netscape
and Internet Explorer, as well as other internet applications.

PanALE/UniText v2.0
 A commercialware solution to viewing Japanese in your browser.

Elixir 2.0
 A shareware program similar to MView in nature that will let you
view Japanese as well as Chinese and Korean in web browsers.
Be sure to check our the Elixir Home Page as well.

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Last Update: 11/23/98