Chinese friend: "If you use pinyin not at all. There are other ways such as stroke based, I have never learned it." This matches my prediction. Typing Japanese

Chinese friend: "If you use pinyin not at all. There are other ways such as stroke based, I have never learned it." This matches my prediction. Typing Japanese isn't hard either (and I'm just a beginning learner) -- typing ha in JP mode gives は, or if you're only in JP mode the typical layout assigns that to qwerty 'f'. Like Chinese, IME drop-down selection works well for kanji.