Does InDesign CC support Japanese text?

Question

I am trialling Creative Cloud on a Mac, and want to find out if InDesign CC will support the formatting of Japanese text with Furigana. I have tried copying and pasting text from a Word document into InDesign, but the furigana disappears from above the kanji, and appears in brackets after each character. I also note that Japanese appears to be missing from the list of languages when I try to assign a language to the text, though Japanese fonts are supported.

Answer 1

I don't have much experience with furigana/ruby, and they are not a hot topic around here so I hope someone who knows better will answer -- maybe one of the contributors to this Jan. 2012 thread.   Best of all would be confirmation that the Japanese version of InDesign imports MS Word furigana correctly: it ought to, of course, but given the complaints around here about ID's importing of MS Word files I'm not holding my breath.
Both HTML5 and Epub3 include furigana, which bodes well for the future.  Meanwhile back in the present one must get work out the door.  The first thing to try is to import ("place") the text into ID rather than paste it in from the clipboard.  If importing *.docx fails, the usual advice is to try *.rtf or *.doc (obviously, the older formats might not handle furigana as well).  After that, well, I suppose I'd look into Word conversions to HTML or XML to see about massaging elements in those formats to yield something useful either during import into ID with an XSLT transformation of XML, or afterwards in ID with Javascript.  (Here I have in mind the hoops people jump through getting footnotes into InDesign from Word and XML.)
Good luck!
David