How to install Japanese characters

How to get Japanese characters to be displayed in Second Life.

I had a problem displaying Japanese characters in Second Life and this is what I had to do to get this working.

Here are the instructions on how to install the Japanese and other Asian character sets in Windows XP from the disk.
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments%26Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Langu...

These are the instructions for being able to read them and to copy and paste them into http://translate.google.com
or for use of translators in Second Life.

This is not meant to be for writing.

If you want to write Japanese, you will need to installe the Global IME (Microsoft Global Input Method Editor) for Japanese which then works with Word or Outlook. You need to define which version of Office you are using (whether XP, 2003, 2007 or 2010) and then download this from the Microsoft sites. 
For example for Office XP
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=EN&am...

Personally I think a learner of Japanese does not need to be able to write for a while.,It is however good to start to learn to read.