Japanese alphebitizing

Which comes first english or Japanese chars?

[David_M]

Is there a standard method of alphebitizing when using romaji (english text) and Japanese characters?

Yahoo Japan places romaji first followed by Japanese.
DMOZ usues numbers, then hiragana/katakana, then kanji, then English.
Goo seems to use no order at all, perhaps by inclusion date.

[bill]

I asked a few people and got different answers.

The default ordering used on the Japanese version of Windows is:

1. Numbers
   
2. Romaji
   
3. Katakana
   
4. Hiragana
   
5. Kanji

[PogoDo]

Actually order in here (Japan) is

1 numbers
2 romaji
3 katakana
4 hiragana
5 kanji