There are several issues involved in importing and using Japanese or other extended characters:

OS (or other) support for the language

jMemorize does not provide direct support for entry and display of wide character sets. You must start by installing whatever support your OS provides for the language. (http://wiki.jmemorize.org/Foreign_Language_Alphabets)

Display of characters in jMemorize

Once the OS support is installed, you need to choose a font in jMemorize that can display the language you are using:

• <File> -> <Preferences> -> Font settings

(for example, you can use MS PGothic for Japanese.) Set the font for one or both sides as necessary.

• Now test your settings by importing this csv file (http://jmemorize.org/files/wiki/exampleJPN2.csv) - this file is encoded as UTF8 - and view the cards. If you can't see the kanji, then revisit the font settings and OS support until you can.

Building a csv or tsv file for import

The procedure for this depends on what you are using to create the cards. The following steps show one way to do this using excel:

• Create your data, one line per card
• Add a header line as specified by the wiki docs
• Save as, type "Unicode text". This will create a tab separated file (tsv). You can change the file extension to tsv if you want.
• In jMemorize, Import the tsv using encoding UTF-16.

A sample TSV can be found here (http://jmemorize.org/files/wiki/exampleJPN2.tsv)

Good sources for Japanese flash card data

• There are some Kanji flash cards hosted here http://jmemorize.org/lessons/kanji.jml

• Peter van der Woude has created an excellent website (http://www.spurrymoses.com/jlpt/) that has a number of Japanese vocabulary lists. You can paste these into excel and then import into jMemorize using the above process.