Choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Type (Mac OS).

Select Show Asian Options, and click OK.

You can also control how font names are displayed (in English or in the native language) by selecting or deselecting Show Font Names in English.

Select the characters or type objects to which you want to apply the setting. If you don’t select any text, the setting applies to new text you create.

Make sure that an OpenType font is selected.

Look in the Type > Font menu; OpenType fonts display the  icon.

In the OpenType panel, set any of the following options:

Kerning is according to the proportional metrics of the font.

Switches hiragana fonts, which have different glyphs for horizontal and vertical such as contracted sounds, double consonants, and phonetic indexes.

Changes half-width alphanumerics to italics.

Select the characters you want to replace.

Choose an option from the Glyphs panel menu. If you don’t see the following options, select Show Asian Options in the Type preferences. If an option is dimmed, the glyph form is not available for the current font:

Replaces the selected characters with traditional forms.

Replaces the selected characters with their expert forms.

Replaces the selected characters with JIS 04 forms.

Replaces the selected characters with JIS 90 forms.

Replaces the selected characters with JIS 78 forms.

Replaces the selected characters with JIS 83 forms.

Changes the glyphs of the selected Latin characters to monospace hankaku (half width).

Changes the glyphs of the selected Latin characters to monospace third width.

Changes the glyphs of the selected Latin characters to monospace quarter width.

Tip: To revert an alternate glyph to its default form, select it and choose Revert To Default Forms from the Glyphs panel menu. You cannot use this method to revert alternate glyphs that were applied using a character style.

Select the paragraphs you want to adjust.

Choose a leading option from the Paragraph panel menu.

Measures the spacing between lines of type from the top of one line to the top of the next line. When you use top‑to‑top leading, the first line of type in a paragraph is aligned flush with the top of the bounding box.

For horizontal type, measures the space between lines of type from the type baseline. When you use bottom-to-bottom leading, space appears between the first line of type and the bounding box. A check mark indicates which option is selected.

note: The leading option you choose does not affect the amount of leading between lines, only how the leading is measured.

Select characters and choose Tate-chu-yoko from the Character panel menu. (Select it again to turn Tate-chu-yoko off.)

Select any of the following tate-chu-yoko settings from the Character panel menu:

Specifies a positive value to move the text up and a negative value to move it down.

Specifies a positive value to move the text to the right and a negative value to move it to the left.

Tip: Use tsume or tracking in the Character panel to adjust the character spacing for tate-chu-yoko.

note: If the Tate-chu-yoko option isn’t showing, you need to select Show Asian Options in the Type preferences.

Select the characters you want to adjust with the Type tool, and do any of the following in the Character panel:

• To add aki before or after a character, choose the amount of aki you want to add from the Insert Aki (Left)  or Insert Aki (Right)  menu in the Character panel. For example, if you specify 2bu, half a full-width space is added, and if you specify 4bu, a quarter of a full-width space is added.

• To compress the aki between characters, specify a percentage for Tsume . The higher the percentage, the narrower the aki between characters.

Select text and choose Warichu from the Character panel menu. (Select it again to turn it off.)

Select any of the following warichu settings from the Character panel menu:

Specifies how many lines of text will appear as warichu characters.

Determines the distance between the lines of warichu characters.

Sets the size of warichu characters as a percentage of the size of the parent text.

Specifies the alignment of warichu characters. For example, in a vertical frame grid, selecting Top will align the beginning of the warichu characters at the top of the frame. The alignment proxy shows how the warichu text appears relative to the parent text.

Specifies the minimum number of characters required before and after the line breaks to start a new line.

In the Character panel menu, choose an option from the Character Alignment submenu:

Aligns the small characters in a line to the large character.

Aligns the small characters in a line to the specified position of the large character’s em box. In vertical text frames, Em box Top/Right aligns the text to the right of the em box, and Em box Bottom/Left aligns the text to the left of the em box.

Aligns the small characters in a line to the ICF specified by the large characters. In vertical text frames, ICF Top/Right aligns the text to the right of the ICF, and ICF Bottom/Left aligns the text to the left of the ICF.

In the Character panel, set Kerning to zero.

In the Paragraph panel, choose an option from the Mojikumi Set pop‑up menu: 

None Turns off the use of mojikumi.

YakumonoHankaku mojikumi setYakumonoHankaku Uses half-width spacing for punctuation.

GyoumatsuYakumonoHankaku mojikumi setGyoumatsuYakumonoHankaku Uses full-width spacing for most characters except the last character in the line.

GyoumatsuYakumonoZenkaku mojikumi setGyoumatsuYakumonoZenkaku Uses full-width spacing for most characters and the last character in the line.

YakumonoZenkaku mojikumi setYakumonoZenkaku Uses full-width spacing for punctuation.

Do one of the following:

• Choose Type > Mojikumi Settings.

• Choose Mojikumi Settings from the Mojikumi Set pop‑up menu in the Paragraph panel.

Click New in the Mojikumi Settings dialog box.

Enter a name for the new mojikumi set, specify the existing set on which the new set will be based, and click OK.

Choose Use Percentage (%) or Bu from the Units pop‑up menu.

Specify Desired, Minimum, and Maximum values for each option. The Minimum value is used to compress lines for kinsoku (specify a value less than the Desired value). The Maximum value is used to spread lines for fully justified text (specify a value greater than the Desired value).

Click Save or OK to save the settings. Click Cancel if you don’t want to save the settings.

In the Mojikumi Settings dialog box, do any of the following:

• To export a set, click Export, select a location for the file, type a filename, and click Save. Illustrator saves the file in MJK format.

• To import a set, click Import, select an MJK file, and click Open.

• To delete a set, choose it from the Mojikumi pop‑up menu and then click Delete. All the text to which the mojikumi set was applied will return to the default settings.

In the Paragraph panel, choose an option from the Kinsoku Set pop‑up menu:

Turns off the use of kinsoku shori.

Prevents selected characters from beginning or ending a line.

Do one of the following:

• Choose Type > Kinsoku Shori Settings.

• Choose Kinsoku Settings from the Kinsoku Set pop‑up menu in the Paragraph panel.

In the Kinsoku Shori Settings dialog box, click New Set.

Enter a name for the kinsoku set, specify the existing set on which the new set will be based, and click OK.

To add a character to a field, select the field, and do one of the following:

• Enter a character in the Input box, and click Add.

• Specify the code system (Shift JIS, JIS, Kuten, or Unicode), enter the code, and click Add.

To delete a character in a field, select the character and click Delete. Alternatively, press Backspace (Windows) or Delete (Mac OS).

To check the character code currently selected, select Shift JIS, JIS, Kuten, or Unicode, and display the code system.

Click Save or OK to save the settings. Click Cancel if you don’t want to save the settings.

In the Kinsoku Shori Settings dialog box, do any of the following:

• To export a kinsoku set, click Export. Select a location for the file, enter a filename, and click Save.

  Illustrator saves the file in KSK format.

• To import a kinsoku set, click Import. Select a KSK file, and click Open.

• To delete a kinsoku set, choose the kinsoku set you want to delete from the pop‑up menu. Then click Delete Set.

  note: You cannot delete predefined kinsoku settings.

From the Paragraph panel menu, choose Kinsoku Shori Type and then choose one of the following methods:

Moves characters up to the previous line to prevent prohibited characters from ending or beginning a line.

Moves characters down to the next line to prevent prohibited characters from ending or beginning a line.

Always moves characters down to the next line to prevent prohibited characters from ending or beginning a line. A push-in is not attempted.

A check mark indicates which method is selected.

In the Paragraph panel, choose Bunri-kinshi from the panel menu.

In the Paragraph panel, choose Burasagari from the panel menu.

Choose an option from the submenu:

Turns off hanging punctuation.

Turns on hanging punctuation without forcing ragged lines to the bounding box edge.

Forces punctuation outside the bounding box by spreading lines that end within the bounding box and end with one of the hanging characters.

note: The Burasagari options are not available when Kinsoku Shori is set to None.

Using any type tool, select a paragraph of text to which you want to apply repeated character processing. If no text exists, the setting applies to new text typed.

In the Paragraph panel, select Kurikaeshi Moji Shori from the panel menu.