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.
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