hi
i live in japan and recently bought a tr1
after a few weeks of fiddling with the japanese os, i just gave up
waaay to much kanji
so i installed an english xp and just finally got all the little gadgets to work
but now i have my keyboard
the keyboard itself is in japanese form, with the @ key being where the [ key should be
theres alot of minor differences but these are what annoy me
im not the best typest so i have to look down every now and then and when i see an @ mark and hit it but a [ comes up, its really annoying
so i was wondering if anyone knew of someway to change the keyboard layout back to japanese

I think you probably need to find out the model number and order it from sony….

I know that there was one guy on this forum that has changed his keyboard.  Try a search..

ok, i got it now
after a few more hours of messing with this thing i got a little closer to what i wanted
anyways, i installed the japanese keyboard driver and in the language bar thing, i added japanese
now at least in japanese mode, i get the right symbols for the right keys i type

You could always try this

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?t=1342&highlight=msklc

ok, i finally got my keyboard the way i wanted it
it was easlier then i thought
all i did was install the japanese keyboard driver
add japanese in the input languages and make japanese the default input
now when i start up my vaio, the keyboard settings start in japanese input but the default input in that is direct input
in direct input i get regular abc keys plus when i hit a certain key, i get the right symbol
anyways, thanks for the suggestions^^