I must buy a new desk top next month . Seriously thinking about making the switch . I should mention , I am in Japan and have a Japanese wife so whatever computer we buy will have to have a Japanese keyboard / etc...I can do most of what I want with Windows in Japanese as that is all I have ever used at home and in the faculty room at school . Worried about the learning curve that would be involved with a Japanese iMac .
I’m going to refer you over to “Swordmaker” for some information on that. He is very knowledgable about the Mac platform, and if there are things to know about that, I’m sure he can help...
Hey, Swordmaker... take a look here for “sushiman”... thanks...
The foreign language support in OS X is great. I do German and French and the extra German characters like ö and ü (Option-U for umlaut, then type the letter that gets an umlaut) are much easier and more intuitive to do on a Mac than in Windows, same for French with the accents like é (same, but Option-E for accent egule).
Searching “os x japanese support” might surprise you.