Being able to use kanji, hiragana and katakana for Web site addresses would not greatly enhance convenience for Japanese because many are familiar with English and search engines such as Yahoo and Google already enable searches in Japanese, Internet... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Fri, Nov 06 2009
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