Sorting by the Japanese 'alphabet'

I posted this on the Drupal Japan thingy, and imagine has been very kind, but Japanese is not my native language so I thought I would post here too.If you've ever studied Japanese, this is very simple, but I've heard some wild guesses so I will explain...English has an alphabet. Each word is divided into letters. In the dictionary, you can look things up in ABC order.Japanese has a syllabary. Each word is divided into syllables. In the dictionary, you look things up in a, ka, sa, ta order.In English, you only represent things with letters, but in Japanese, simply put, some words are represented by Chinese characters.It's really not that confusing. :)But anyway, I want to create a list of the Japanese titles for anime series, and sort them by a ka sa ta. Basic problem is terms will be in Chinese characters, but need to be sorted by their pronunciation. It wouldn't look pretty to put the pronunciation before the chinese characters, and some can be pretty long.I want to do this as easily and as painlessly as I can.My English category is set up as a freetagging vocabulary, and I use the views module to sort by A, B, C whenever I need to. It's nice and automated. Any ideas on how to do this? Not possible? Using Drupal 4.7.Anisa.