Originally Posted by Sunnyhere
I'll step out on a line...and suggest you can get this done in the US, before you leave. With my home computer I can create documents using hiragana, katagana and kanji and then print them, so why can't a far more high tech copy store do the same, stepping it up a bit for better paper and more printing options?
Because your average far more high tech neighborhood Kinko's probably hasn't gone through the not-inconsiderable hassle of making things work right in Japanese.