Japanese input - keyboard layout

i am fairly new mac user. i bought this imac in May and set it up, so that i can type in japanese.
it was working fine until last weekend. usually, i just use english keyboard layout to type in japanse (type "sushi" to get sushi in japanese), but now keyboard layout is off. when i type "sushi" in japanese mode it shows typed as "ogodc" when it should be "sushi". i am not sure what happened. the conversion itself works. when i type S on the keyboard, it acts as if i typed O (which is wrong), and it shows as O in japanese (which is correct).
when i go to international language setting, i can see the input type as "keyboard" for US, but "input method" for japanese.
i could not find anything in documents provided by apple.

Go to Kotoeri Preferences (toward bottom of the "flag" menu when you have Hiragana or whatever selected), first tab, third item down, and make sure it says US. If not, click on it to select US.

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This is a bug report for Microst Remote Desktop
===================================================
## Summary
A keyboard layout is incorrect on the remote with Japanese keyboard
## Version Information, I tested
* Client
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## Captures
I've took some of screen captures.
I'm sorry for the capture includes Japanese words, so I added description in English.
Capture 1:
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Capture 2:
Windows Server 2012R2 Screen Keyboard
Capture 3:
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arachanox wrote:
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As the title suggests, I need to frequently use Japanese Input. I've tried Anthy, however, the prediction is bad and the dictionaries are lacking.
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ibus-daemon -drx
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export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
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I use Skype extensively, and the Japanese input doesn't seem to work there at all, even after putting the export line into /usr/bin/skype.
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Last edited by ConstruKction (2014-04-14 11:08:17)

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