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I've wondered about this too - they must have to use Latin characters a ton too to be on the internet right? Or how does that work? I've never seen web addresses in Japanese.
URLs use a system called punycode to convert to a subset of ASCII that's used for DNS resolution. Not sure if typing in non-ascii script in the address bar would auto-convert in most browsers or not though.
people also fucking suck at remembering punycode exists and will just default to the english alphabet because it's easier
So like if you search
鈴鹿サーキット(Suzuka Circuit)
You get a link to suzukacircuit.jp as a top result, but to navigate directly there I think you have to type suzukacircuit.jp in Latin characters
You can often change your kanji + kana into romanji (latin characters) as an autocorrect suggestion
Ah gotcha I should have figured they probably weren't typing URLs directly that much. I guess I'm probably an outlier even among western users for doing that.