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+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, libiconv }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "kakasi";
+  version = "2.3.6";
+
+  buildInputs = lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin [ libiconv ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Kanji Kana Simple Inverter";
+    longDescription = ''
+      KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji
+      characters to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji and may be
+      helpful to read Japanese documents.
+    '';
+    homepage    = "http://kakasi.namazu.org/";
+    license     = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms   = platforms.unix;
+  };
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://kakasi.namazu.org/stable/kakasi-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1qry3xqb83pjgxp3my8b1sy77z4f0893h73ldrvdaky70cdppr9f";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    for a in tests/kakasi-* ; do
+      substituteInPlace $a \
+        --replace "/bin/echo" echo
+    done
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 of 6 tests
+
+}