backslash not available (Japanese keyboard)

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ihsorihakanekat

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I'm using Vinelinux 6.1 (a RedHat based Japanese distribution, kernel-3.0.77)
in Parallels Desktop 8 running on OS X Mountain Lion.

I've set the ¥ (Yen) key to input \ (backslash) on OS X and I can input \ on it.

However, on the linux I cannot input backslash by the key.
It inputs ¥ instead of \ in spite of the setting on OS X.

Vinelinux itself seems to set ¥ (Yen) key to input \ (backslash)
because I can input \ by ¥ key on the same linux directly installed in another PC.

There have been some reports concerning backslash in the Windows forum.
Some of them reports that after the upgrade to 8, backslash becomes unavailable.

Backslash is very important on UNIX command lines.
How can I input \ backslash on the linux.
 
It has become possible to input \ by using xmodmap as the following.

$ xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap

Editting the file as:
keycode 132 backslash bar backslash bar

$ xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
 
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