1This module provides methods to convert different written forms of 2Japanese into one another. It enables conversion between romanized 3Japanese, hiragana, and katakana. It also includes a number of 4unusual encodings such as Japanese braille and morse code, as well as 5conversions between Japanese and Cyrillic and Hangul. It also handles 6conversion between the Chinese characters (kanji) used before and 7after the character reforms of 1949, as well as the various bracketed 8and circled forms of kana and kanji. 9