Windows 10: How to use external Japanese 106/109 keyboard to US laptop.

Hi, I am trying to connect USB/ external and use a Japanese-type keyboard 106/109 key to my US laptop. I able unable to use the external keyboard and its special characters. I believe this is probably a setting issue and would greatly appreciate it if someone can help me or show me how to change it. To give you more insight. When I use the External JP keyboard it uses the US template rather than the Japanese template or what is actually on the keyboard. Example On external JP Keyboard: when I press " shift+2 " it gives me @ and not " .when I press " @ " it gives me " [ ".

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Toggle keys, capslock has no sound with Japanese 106/109 keyboard.

It is using the drivers that is built into windows.

Standard Keyboards - Japanese PS/2 Keyboard (106/109 Key), or

Standard Keyboards - Japanese PS/2 Keyboard (106/109 Key Ctrl + Eisuu)

Turning caplock on/off produces no toggle-keys sound with either of these drivers.

 

Toggle keys, capslock has no sound with Japanese 106/109 keyboard.

I recently received a new Thinkpad laptop with English Win10Pro and Japanese keyboard.

For the Japanese keyboard to work correctly, it is necessary to change the driver to

Japanese PS/2 Keyboard (106/109 Key)

https://support.lenovo.com/jp/ja/solutions/ht104378

I have the Ease-of-Access "Toggle Keys" function is turned on.

However, turning capslock on/off (with shift-capslock) does not produce any sound.

Can anyone advise how I can enable the toggle-keys sound when using a Japanese (106/109 key) keyboard?

Note: If the input method is changed to 'US Keyboard', turning capslock on/off *does* produce a sound - but this is not a viable solution because a number of keys are mapped differently. It would appear this might be a toggle-keys issue, that is unable
to trigger when a Japanese keyboard layout is installed?

 

Japanese keyboard on english system

Neil,

Thanks for your reply. But that doesn't quite get it.

I eventually figured it out for myself.

There are two Japanese keyboard layouts supported by Win 10 Japanese language pack.

Simply selecting the "Japanese!" keyboard isn't enough.

Here's what works.

With the Japanese language pack installed go to

Settings-> Time & Language -> Language

click on the Japanese language pack and you will get an options button. Click that.

This brings up "Language Options: Japanese"

find "Hardware keyboard layout"

click "Change layout"

You will get a choice between a 101/102 key layout and a 106/109 key layout,

Don't bother counting your keys because you may well not have 101, 102, 106 or 109 keys..

Just switch to the other from what is not working. In my case this was a shift from 101/102 to 106/109

My keyboard actually has 130 keys.

You need to reboot for the keyboard mapping to take effect.

After setting the japanese language keyboard option the keyboard mapping will also work in English input mode.

For that you need to add the Japanese keyboard to your default input mode assuming that like me the default is English.

Hank