Right what this is is akin to DVD regions, Japanese encoding is different to Western, namely on a basic level, if you are western and download a Japanese game it most likely doesn't even know what the font is, so it changes the names of everything to random symbols.
Some Japanese games are still playable though. You can:
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- Download Locale Emulator or Applocale. In Locale Emulator you can right click on a Japanese EXE file and click Run as Japanese and sometimes it works.
AND/OR:
Go into system locale on your computer and change it to Japan, this makes the computer format itself into a Japanese one. You can still have English language, it will just think it's in Japan.
