is there a way to create kanji or other symbol based text fonts using blenders text object? i'm doing a project where i want to add japanese style text to a mesh but i don't want to make the symbols individually as it will take a while and will most likely not turn out right. preferably a way to convert the english text into japanese kanji or another language much like google translate does.
You just need to find an OpenType or Truetype Kanji font, then you can load it into Blender's text object, and paste in your Kanji messaging in Edit Mode. You'll have to do the translation part somewhere else though.

If you having issues getting it to work, it might be easier to set the text in another program like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape and then importing the text as SVG file into blender.