I hav a sword with japanese but i cant read it do you know any way to to read it 4 free on the internet?

use ur word program that you type on and print out all the letters of the jap alfa!thats the best way i found

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html you can try this free english jampanese translation server. you need the language toolpack for kanji but this should help nonetheless and its free!

You'll NEVER be able to find the right kanji alone!! There are THOUSANDS of them!!! I recommend that you take a photo, put it on your computer, then on a site like photobucket.com, and give us a link! It wouldn't hurt to ask the question in several different sections either, this one, maybe education & reference / words & wordplay, and Travel / Asia Pacific / Japan. Someone should see it who can help, there are several Japanese people who use this site, and there are others with Japanese husbands or wives! But ask them to provide a link so you can double check!! Unfortunately SOME people think it's funny to make up nonsense in response to that sort of question. (Sometimes they even get best answer - because the unsuspecting soul who asked the question doesn't know any better!) It would also help if you tell us whether your computer can display Japanese characters, can you see this 今日は!??!

Bring it to your neighborhood sushi chef and see if he can decipher the linguo... then again, most of your sushi restaurants here in the state are opened by Chinese, Koreans, Indonesians, everyone except Japanese... :)

I guess it's 'ittou-ryoudan', 一刀両断.