If you’ve ever downloaded something packed in .zip in Japanese you might have saw this:

when it should have looked like this:

I’ll show you how to fix that.

Common problems and FAQ here.

For Windows 10 and Windows 7 tutorial check this link.

For macOS users: I never held anything from Apple in my life so I can’t help help you. 🙁

1. Go to settings

2. Click Time and Language

3. Then Language and region

4. Administrative language settings (or hovewer it’s called in English version)

5. And now window will pop up, click Change regional system settings or Change system locale (or again hovewer it’s called in English)

6. Change it to Japanese and click OK.

That’s it! Remember to restart your PC!

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Common problems:

I did that but it still isn’t showing Japanese letters.

There might be three reasons:
First: You didn’t restart your computer.
Second: You need to extract the files from .zip again after changing locale and restarting your computer.
Third: The file might have been broken already before by the person who gave you it.
All files downloaded from here aren’t broken and show up correctly.

FAQ (click here)