Japanese characters showing Junk when opened in MS Excel

Hello Friends,
I am working on a BSP project but this one is a little of ABAP as we are allowing some download reports via ABAP but all other interfaces via BSP..BUT eventually, we will be converting them to BSP download features.
At this point, I am facing a strange issue while downloading via normal ABAP but I am speculating I may face this issue even if I download via a BSP Download option. Here is my issue:
I have a ABAP report which displays vendor name and address as a list. Some of the vendor address are in Japanese Language and they are displayed properly on the report output ie on screen. (We have logged in as language JA). Now, when the user uses the SAP standard menu ie SYSTEM->LIST->SAVE->Local File-> and selects SPREADSHEET and saves the file as a .XLS on his desktop. When he opens this MS Excel spreadsheet from the desktop...all the Japanese characters are displaying as JUNK!
Since it is displaying properly on SAP, I am assuming this is something to do either with MS Excel or there is something going wrong when SAP downloads to Excel.
How can I get the Japanese characters displayed properly via the spreadsheet. Could anyone kindly help me to resolve this issue.
Our SAP is NON UNICODE enabled. We are on SAP ECC 5 ie 6.40.
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Shan

kumar,
I wrote to SAP about this issue and here is what they have to say and the solution they suggested.
the files which are created by the download as spreadsheet option are
no true Excel files (see note 569537).
Therefore the automatic import into Excel fails sometimes, and Excel
needs additional parameters to import such a file.
Could you try the following:
1. Rename the file so that the extension is .txt - not .xls.
2. Open the file in Excel via the File->Open dialog.
3. In the import wizard, choose encoding "932 - Japanese (Shift Jis)"
In my case (Excel 2007) the files were displayed correctly. The problem
is that Excel does not know the original encoding of the file, so the
encoding must be specified by the user.
We followed the same.
Hope this helps.
PK

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