Japanese input seems totally broken on 61.0.3129.0.

In Japanese IME, pressing keys on the keyboard seems to just result in direct input like English input: if I press 'a' then 'a' is written directly to the screen.

This bug not repro in the latest version;
Check in v61.0.3147.0 canary ;

Do we know what fixed it? It's still broken for me on 61.3144.0 dev, so it was a patch between 3144 and 3147?

We don't have a Japanese physical keyboard. So I think zhangyu@ just verified it through the on-screen keyboard.

It's likely 2 separated issues for switching through physical and on-screen keyboards.

Reopen this issue to Yingbing for further investigation.

 Issue 739076  has been merged into this issue.

Hey, I discovered if I enable Accessibility -> On Screen Keyboard, then Japanese input worked again. Then if I disabled On Screen Keyboard, it continued working.
So now it's working again.

Somehow I had got in a strange state where it wasn't working and I believe the strange state persisted between reboots.

Hi falken,
What's your chrome os version?
My version is 60.0.3112.50, whatever I restart the device. I can use "~" key to toggle "US" and "JP" state.

For "英数" and "かな" key, since my device is not physical Japanese keyboard. It doesn't has these two keys. I can't test it.

Could you confirm whether "~" works well?
If only "英数" and "かな" key don't work well, I need order a physical Japanese keyboard first.

Chrome 61.0.3144.0.

I don't have a physical Japanese keyboard. It's an English US keyboard. I can use Ctrl+Space to switch between English and Japanese input.

The ~ key does not switch input, but I don't think it's supposed to. It just inputs '`'

Hi falken,
We may talk with different bugs.
Please see  crbug.com/739076  for more detail.

Japanese keyboard has special switching logic.
Please select "Japanese Keyboard" and "Google Japanese Input (for Japanese Keyboard)" two input methods.

Then press "~" to switch between them.


For the issue you refer "Japanese not working issue".
Could you delete  "Google Japanese Input (for Japanese Keyboard)" and re-add it.
It may solve the issue. 

I have a Japanese keyboard in MTV if that's helpful.

Hi Falken,
Could you update the result?
I will close the bug later.
It seems not repro now.

Haven't seen this issue in a while. I could not get back to the broken state after comment 9.

hi, yhanada, 
Do you have Japanese physical keyboard?
Could you help to verify the bug?

Sure. I'll verify this soon.

I can't reproduce this issue. Let me close it.