Being a Trilingual Translator and Interpreter for almost a decade, it is imperative for me to have a Japanese Keyboard on my PC and my preferred display language is always English.

Recently I just bought myself a brand new Laptop that came with Windows 10 Home. But I didn’t aware until I set the Windows that the version is a Single Language. During the setup I chose English as my Display language because that’s the way I prefer it. I thought I could easily just add a Japanese Keyboard later on. That has been always the case up until now (at least from XP ,7 and until 8 it can be done this way).

But Alas when I tried to add new Language/Keyboard, it showed me “only one language pack allowed”. Hence the Japanese Keyboard is installed but I can’t type anything in Japanese because the system will do anything to prevent it. Almost frustrated with this condition I tried to find my way around and finally resolve the situation.

This is the solution :

• Go to Setting -> Region & Language -> Add new language -> Add Japanese
  It doesn’t matter even if you get “only one language pack allowed”, you still need to do this step before moving on.
• Go to Typing setting (you can search it in the box for easy access) -> advanced keyboard settings.
• Under the “Override for default input method” choose your language (in my case it’s Japanese – Microsoft IME).
• Done. Voila now you can have Japanese Keyboard with English Display.
  (In Japanese Keyboard, you can still type in English because there is a toggle to switch into alphanumeric mode, the toggle switch is Alt+Tilde~)

*I wrote this in my blog for a future reference in case I need to remember this and also hopefully it can help other people that have the same experience with me.