.
It's not always clear hot to use Cyrillic or Japanese in the
Newsreaders
that do support non-Western-European languages, so you may want to
see my tune-up instructions for Outlook Express, Mozilla News, and
Thunderbird -
the instructions are for Russian, but it's the same for any other
language -

it's in the 'Russian in Browsers/Mail/News' section of my site:

http://RusWin.net

-- 
Paul