Garbled Font Names

Hello everyone,
I'm excited, just made the switch over to Mac and have been setting things up on my new computer. While moving fonts over from my old PC to the Mac, I've had some trouble with my Japanese fonts. They seem to work and are useable, but many of the names come out as garbled text in both Font Book and applications. Some of the Japanese fonts come out readable--it seems to be the ones with only alphabet in the title--but others with Japanese characters in the title are unreadable.
I've been searching for info on this in a lot of places but have not find anything relevant to my situation yet.
In my System Preferences for language I have English listed first, followed by Japanese. I can read all of the characters in these fonts, it's just that the names come out garbled. There are a couple dozen of these. Oddly, there are also 3 English fonts that include "Regen" in the name that come out with Chinese characters in the name and the font characters are completely garbled (Zyia Learns Letters Regen.ttf, Keep Out Regen.ttf, and Luv Country Art Regen.ttf).
Would anyone be kind enough to help with this problem?

Your pc fonts probably have their internal names encoded in something other than Unicode. I don't think there is any easy way to change that. Is there any difference if you run your OS in Japanese (when you put Japanese at the top of the Language list instead of English)?
As for the fonts that don't work right, they may also not be Unicode, which is what OS X requires.
There is a Japanese forum here:
https://discussionsjapan.apple.com/index.jspa

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