>  shrine, I had bunches of strange junk letters come up.  I know that this is
>  actually JIS or EUC or other such coding, but I`d like to see them in the
>  kana format instead of junky char format.
you can get japanese editors at ftp site oak.oakland.edu 

in directory Simtel/msdos/textutil/, 
the files are called njj* ( the decompressed editor 
is njstar, it's shareware, and quite expensive if 
you choose to keep it, but it's the only one I've tried ) 
it _may_ be in directory editor instead, I'm not sure ... 

there is also jwp* in in directory /Simtel/msdos/editor/, 
but I haven't FTPed it yet so I don't know what it's worth. 

in Directory SimTel/msdos/textutil/, 
kanji20.zip   B  189365  901229  Display Japanese Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana
ktype.zip     B  174774  901028  Viewer for Japanese text files (CGA/EGA req.)

jdic23.zip    B  137441  940227  Japanese<->English dictionary (needs edct9401
jis16.zip     B  138092  940227  JIS Kanji 16x16 font files (used by JDIC)
kinfo23.zip   B  422270  940227  Japanese Kanji Info file (used by JDIC)
kjdc9308.zip  B  330773  940227  KANJIDIC: Japanese Kanji dictionary
same remark as above, I don't know those. 

I do hope you have a PC, else the above information will do you little 
good, but oak.oakland.edu has programs for other platforms, so maybe 
you'll find something if you browse a bit. 
good luck. 

Frederic Hugot 
E-Mail at hugot@lannion.cnet.fr 

Disclaimer : neither me nor the CNET are linked in any way to 
the ftp site or programs aforementionned, except I've tried 
njstar last summer and thought it nice ( but too expensive 
for my meager needs :)