when i open a .json file to translate doesn't recognize the japanese characters, only the translated text that i put into the file manually
What exactly are you trying to do and how are you trying to do it?
I mean RPGM files don't work like that, so I assume this is a json from some kind of translation tool?
I also assume you want it to grab the Japanese, but insert the translation in the other entry?
Edit:
If translating the Japanese, but placing it in the second entry is what you want, you could either make a custom parser, which is pretty annoying, or just place the Japanese in the second entry first.
To do that just open the json in Notepad++ open the search window, replace, turn on regex, and do
to be replaced with
You need to be at the very start of the json or it wont work.
Then you can just use the json parser in SLR Translator and batch translate, but a reminder that SLR is only for translating to English.
Also there's some entries at the end of the json that probably shouldn't be MTLed, at least they look like they would break.