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Japana

Japana is a small proxy written in Perl. It converts Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji on the fly into Romaji. The conversion is done using the kakasi-library for Perl. If setting up kakasi is too much of a hassle or not possible you can try the old 1.0.x version. That version does not convert Kanji, but doesn't need kakasi.

Japana has been successfully tested with amazon.co.jp (example).

Debian users should add these lines to their /etc/apt/sources.list to get updates of this program via apt-get:

deb     http://www.cgarbs.de/stuff ./
deb-src http://www.cgarbs.de/stuff ./