Having trouble with Japanese input, ibus-anthy, no Hiragana even with switch

Hi Everyone

I really need to have Japanese input on my computer. I had an old installation of Trisquel from about a year ago. I got things working but after I restarted I could not get things to work again.

I have just freshly installed 7.0 Gnome 64 bit.

I have run updates and installed VLC and Icedove but no other application other then ibus-anthy otherwise so I pretty much have a clean install.

I ran ibus-setup.These are the changes:

I added Japanese

I clicked use system keyboard layout

clicked show icon in system tray

show property panel to always.

Under System Settings I clicked on Language and Support. I added Japanese and left keyboard input as ibus.

Things are weird.

If I type meta space and hold space for a second a icon pops up showing the keyboard switching between Japanese and English .

If I type ibus-daemon, I get:
current session already has an ibus-daemon.

Something is switching. If I go to Japanese the special keys like @, # etc all work differently but when I type:
"wa" I just get wa, it does not switch to hiragana or Kanji.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, I feel I am so close but I am also stuck.

Thanks for reading-Patrick