Japanese characters in JTable cell

Hi,
We have a situation where text is entered via a JTextArea in a dialog, and is then displayed in a JTable.
We can enter japanese characters into the JTextArea in the dialog, these are displayed correctly. However, when we display the data in the JTable, the japanese characters are displayed as squares. Is it possible to get these characters to display properly?
We have installed the MS Mincho font on our system, we're running Windows NT 4.0 (not a japanese version), and we're running version JDK-1.2.2_007 of the JDK.
We've tried updating our font.properties to use the japanese locale, and also setting the font of the table to MS Mincho but without any luck. Some of the other messages in this forum deal with Java 1.3, but we only support 1.2, is it possible with this version of the JDK?
Thanks!
Mark

Hi,
you must have the font set on the Renderer.
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