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Japanese don’t write everything in Hiragana and Katakana, a large portion of the text is in Kanji. So unless you are writing standard phrases that everyone is familiar with, it will be hard for anyone to understand what you are writing, as Joel said, you aren’t supposed to use spaces. Without Kanji added it becomes really difficult to tell where one word ends and another begins.

I believe Koichi explains this in TF around the time he points out how to install the IME. By disabling it (I wouldn’t know how to in any case), you will have to start putting spaces between your words to be understood. This looks bad to others who know how Japanese is supposed to be written and it creates bad habits for you. As once you start learning Kanji, you are going to have to get used to hitting enter anyway, and it’s going to be harder to do, as you’ve already trained yourself in a different, incorrect way of doing it.

We don’t have to do this in English because we don’t have three different sets of characters that we use.

If you think about it like hitting space after each word in English, it really isn’t that big a deal, and it will become natural with practice.

You have to hit enter at the end of each word. Just the way it is.

I’m on the Gold Coast myself. ^_^

I would try e-mailing Koichi directly.