| 1. | The Japanese use katakana / hiragana for transliteration of foreign names.
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| 2. | The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
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| 3. | They can be translated to katakana with a single keypress.
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| 4. | Generally, though, such loanwords are just written in straight katakana.
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| 5. | Its katakana counterpart is used in many loanwords, however.
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| 6. | In modern Japanese, loan words are generally represented phonetically via katakana.
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| 7. | The hiragana and katakana I learned contained no obsolete characters.
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| 8. | :Oh, katakana are parts of words and katanas are swords.
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| 9. | Almost everything is in kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
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| 10. | ALT + Caps Lock just switches to katakana from hiragana.
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