Can I enter an English word and find the Japanese translation for it?

Yes, sure! Searching works in both directions.

Can I draw a Kanji on the screen to find it? How do I activate the Handwriting Keyboard?

Yes, but you will need to activate the Chinese Handwriting Keyboard to do so. In order to do that, go to Settings, General, Keyboard, International Keyboards and activate it.

Unfortunately, there is no Japanese Handwriting Keyboard on the iPhone/iPod. The Chinese Handwriting Keyboard, however, is able to recognize nearly all Kanji.

What is a romanization system and what are the differences among them?

Japanese words are ususally written in Kanji or Hiragana/Katakana. To display a word in the familiar latin alphabet, a set of conversation rules is required -- a romanization system.

"Japanese" supports all important romanization systems: (Revised) Hepburn, Kunrei-shiki, Nihon-shiki and Word Processor.

Let's take the words 東京 (とうきょう) and 新聞 (しんぶん) for example:

Will there be updates? Will updates be free?

Yes and yes. Updates will always be free.

What about a desktop version?

A version of Japanese for Mac OS X is planned and will be released soon. And no, there won't be a windows version.

I'm missing a feature, can you add it?

Yes. Please contact us at support@codefromtokyo.com with your idea.