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For more detailed information, the following pages on multilingual computing are very useful, and were very helpful to me in writing these pages. They treat a variety of languages including Japanese.
Alan Wood's Unicode Resources contains a lot of information on software with support for multiple languages, and includes sections on Mac OS 9 and X as well as Windows and Unix/Linux. It does not treat email programs, but is otherwise very detailed.
Tom Gewecke's Multilingual Mac blog and Unleash your Multilingual Mac site include copious detailed information on non-English language support on Mac. He has some tips for using Japanese (especially with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard) which are not included here.
Yale's Chinese MacSite, with its detailed information on Chinese support in every major version of Mac OS, has a lot of information helpful to Japanese users as well. If you want details on the differences between versions of Mac OS, or using the character palette to input kanji, this is an excellent resource.
If you are looking for localized Japanese versions of other commercial software, you might want to try AsiaSoft.
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