It's not surprising when you think about how Japanese is written. A typical Japanese sentence will have a few Kanji and a lot of phonetic Kana: 日本語はちょっと書きにくい。

It's not surprising when you think about how Japanese is written. A typical Japanese sentence will have a few Kanji and a lot of phonetic Kana: 日本語はちょっと書きにくい。 It would make no sense to switch between phonetic input and writing Kanji by pieces, so instead purely phonetic IMEs are used.