Uim is an input method module library which supports various scripts and can act as a front end for a range of input methods, including anthy, canna, prime, or skk (for japanese), pinyin (for chinese), byeoru (for korean), and m17n (for many other languages). most of its functions are implemented in scheme, so it's very simple and flexible.

this package provides uim support for japanese input via the ajax-ime web api - see http://ajaxime.chasen.org/. note that all requests to the ajax-ime server go over the internet unencrypted.