Japanese input with non-English keyboard

I installed a brandnew iMac for my wife. She wanted to have the system in Japanese, however the keyboard layout needs to be Swiss German (where we bought the HW).
Now - when I use Roman fonts in Text Edit etc with the Swiss Input menu, everything is swell. However, when entering Japanese text, the system assumes an English (US?) keyboard layout. Thus z's become y's, all special characters sit elsewhere on the keyboard etc. A royal mess.
Any advice?

Hi Peter,
sorry, but this is the wrong forum for this type of question. Please visit the Tiger forum. There you will find a lot of people happy to help. This part of Discussions is just for feedback on the forum itself.
-Petra

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