Hi guys,

I just asked myself a question: I remember that the japanese have kanji (and other characters which are combined with them (hiragana?!)).

However, if I remember correctly japanese can be written in our latin alphabet, too..I've heard of people learning to speak japanese (or chinese) without learning all the kanji (because they only needed to be able to speak it, not read it).

I'm not sure about all this (it has been some time since I was interested in learning an exotic language), but do japanese people ever search for keywords using latin characters?

So for example a competitive keyword might have a ton of searches and a ton of competition - if searched for in kanji, but might be less competitive (and of course a way smaller search volume) if it's spelled in latin characters.

Does this ever occur? Are there japanese websites spelled in latin characters?