How to Type Japanese?

[PhysicistSarah]

So, I've had a problem with trying to type Japanese. I install Ibus & Ibus-anthy from the Konsole, but I get a strange problem. The Ibus icon doesn't display itself in the system tray. I can only get it to appear in the system tray after searching for ibus using the super key and clcking on ibus preferences. When I do, I'm prompted to start the ibus daemon thread and I do. The ibus ocon appears on the system tray and when I set a language to Japanese and try to go back and switch to it, it's not on the list. Only EN/US is on the list. It's like it doens't remember it. I tried purging both ibus and anthy, and reinstalling, but no luck. Am I doing the proper method to install these programs? Is this a defect in the program? How can I resolve this?

[whatthefunk]

Lets make sure you have all the packages you need. Sometimes they all dont get installed. You should have the following:

anthy ibus-anthy anthy-common ibus ibus-anthy ibus-qt4 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 libibus-qt1

You can install them all throught the command line:

sudo apt install anthy ibus-anthy anthy-common ibus ibus-anthy ibus-qt4 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 libibus-qt1

[PhysicistSarah]

The problem persists. I got:
sudo apt install anthy ibus-anthy anthy-common ibus ibus-anthy ibus-qt4 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 libibus-qt1
[sudo] password for sarah:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
anthy is already the newest version (9100h-25ubuntu1).
anthy-common is already the newest version (9100h-25ubuntu1).
anthy-common set to manually installed.
gir1.2-ibus-1.0 is already the newest version (1.5.14-2ubuntu1).
gir1.2-ibus-1.0 set to manually installed.
ibus is already the newest version (1.5.14-2ubuntu1).
ibus-anthy is already the newest version (1.5.9-1ubuntu2).
ibus-gtk is already the newest version (1.5.14-2ubuntu1).
ibus-gtk set to manually installed.
ibus-gtk3 is already the newest version (1.5.14-2ubuntu1).
ibus-gtk3 set to manually installed.
ibus-qt4 is already the newest version (1.3.3-1).
libibus-qt1 is already the newest version (1.3.3-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[GreyGeek]

Have you played with SystemSettings --> Regional Settings --> Language?