Do we need to convert Chinese/Japanese properties to Unicode?

Dear friends,
I am new to this Internationalization concept. I have a web application and I am looking forward to implement Internationalization.
To make my app support muti-language, I am using Locale & Resource bundle to find properties files based on Country and Language. I have different properties files based on countries. This works fine when there are unicode characters and no special characters in the property file.
For eg. the application doesn't displays Chinese/Japanese characters with System.out.println at all. It displays something weird symbols..
P.S : I haven't converted Chinese/Japanese properties files to Unicode with native2ascii tool?
An important question for me is,
1) Do we need to convert Chinese/Japanese or any non-unicode related properties files with native2ascii tool?
2) Is there any other way to read such properties files without converting them with native2ascii tool?
3) We have made fixed UTF-8 format policy for the app. Is there any way to read those properties file with UTF-8 mechanism without need to convert the properties files?
4) If anyone has quick example code for displaying Chinese/Japanese characters from properties file, then that would be a great help.
Thanks a million. Any help would be highly appreciated.
sachin

System.out.println display depends on the system locale. If you are running on a US English system, Chinese and japanese will not display correctly in the console.
Your properties file questions:
1) Do we need to convert Chinese/Japanese or any non-unicode related properties files with native2ascii tool? yes
2) Is there any other way to read such properties files without converting them with native2ascii tool? - no
3) We have made fixed UTF-8 format policy for the app. Is there any way to read those properties file with UTF-8 mechanism without need to convert the properties files? no

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