Importing Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Arabic from Word to Indesign CS5.5 ME Edition

Hi,
I am currently working on 13 languages leaflet, and I am importing my word documents in using Paragraph Styles direct in to my document. The document I am producing is one continuos story, and I need to introduce Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic to the document.
I am using the Middle Eastern version of Indesign, so it can handle the text. But when I bring in the Word Document it totally ignores the Paragraph Styles for the text and places in with the font used within word.
I need to bring in the text as follows,
Chinese     MHei Light/Bold
Japan          DFGothicPStd W2/W5
Korean          SMGothicStd Light/Bold
Arabic          GeezaPro Regular/Bold
Is it the formatting of the Word Document I need to concentrate on, or the way I introduce this in to InDesign?
The styles I want work if I set them by hand, but I need them to work when importing the Word Document as I have many of these to produce,
Thanks
Steve

Your line breaks will most likely be incorrect if you don't turn on the Japanese Composer.
It is almost absolutely impossible to accomplish your goal without having a font - any font - installed on your system that has that glyph. However, if it's showing up in Word, than means that you must have that glyph installed, right? What font are you trying to use in InDesign? You might already know that Word will auto-substitute fonts when it encounters a missing glyph, so we really don't know what font is being used to render that one glyph. The whole sentence might be in MS Mincho but one glyph might be pulled from another font if MS Mincho doesn't have that glyph.
That being said, you're going to break it if you don't know how to set Japanese type in ID. It's not something where you can just copy text out of email and paste into your English layout.

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