KAKASI the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji(1) and may be helpful to read Japanese documents. The name "KAKASI" is the abbreviation of "kanji kana simple inverter" and the inverse of SKK "simple kana kanji converter" which is developed by Masahiko Sato at Tohoku University. The most entries of the kakasi dictionary is derived form the SKK dictionaries. If you have some interests in the naming of "KAKASI", please consult to Japanese-English dictionary. :-) The kit of KAKASI includes C programs and Several kind of dictionaries. The large dictionary "kakasidict" may be provided as another file "kakasidict.YYMMDD.gz" since it is often revised and really LARGE. (1) "Romaji" is alphabetical description of Japanese pronunciation. KAKASI is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. KAKASI is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release. See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. You can get the latest KAKASI from ftp://kakasi.namazu.org/pub/kakasi/ You can get information about KAKASI from http://kakasi.namazu.org/ Mail comments and bug reports to bug-kakasi@namazu.org in Japanese or English.