ITunes extracted album art file name oddity (Japanese characters)

I am on iTunes 10.6.3. After doing a clean install of Mountain Lion I have noticed that although the iTunes version has not changed some behavior is slightly different than when it was running under Snow Leopard.
Any time I drag album art from an album titled with Japanese characters out of the "Now Playing" pane in the lower left of the iTunes GUI the image file in Finder has been named with weird characters. I can successfully rename the file in Finder with the proper Japanese characters. Why is iTunes naming the image files incorrectly?
Here is an example of an album art image file both as it came from iTunes and after being renamed. The top one is the incorrectly titled file that came straight from iTunes.

Try this...
btabz: My songs have artwork in iTunes, but it won't transfer to my iPod!
It is for a slightly different issue, but the instructions should work.
If those don't work, you may need to restore the iPod as the link says.
btabz

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