ITunes crashes on attempt to play media with foreign characters

Question

Recently, over the last few versions I have been unable to play any of my media that includes foreign characters, be it Asian characters or accented Roman characters. The fact of the matter is that upon attempting to play a song / audiobook / movie with a foreign character iTunes crashes.
I am using iTunes 10.6.1.7 on Windows 7 64-bit in English (UK) with non-unicode set to Japanese.
Windows crash report:
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:          BEX
  Application Name:          iTunes.exe
  Application Version:          10.6.1.7
  Application Timestamp:          4f71aced
  Fault Module Name:          amip.dll
  Fault Module Version:          2.6.7.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:          4b63548c
  Exception Offset:          000b5954
  Exception Code:          c000000d
  Exception Data:          00000000
  OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:          2057
  Additional Information 1:          3191
  Additional Information 2:          319160cfbcc1295d9ca9b4d448d8f7e3
  Additional Information 3:          62c3
  Additional Information 4:          62c3b5fb8ab287fc898b342b661d3806
The media with foreign characters syncs with my iPhone okay, and will play without issue on it; just iTunes is unable to play said media on my computer, which is highly frustrating.
I would be appreciative if someone has found and would share any work-around to this problem. Thanks.

Answer 1

I still have no thorough concept on how I have solved this but I suppose if anyone else has encountered this issue I can share how I worked around it:
I changed my windows system non-unicode locale back to its default (English UK).
I then installed Microsoft AppLocale to handle the programs that would be affected.
For experimental reasons I then set my iTunes executable to have Japanese locale through the AppLocale program.
It now operates fine and will play files with foreign characters.
Try it if you experience the problem's I've been having.