Messages as japanese appear as garbage on other end

I have an AT&T IPhone 4 running IOS 5, my friend has Verizon IPhone 4 running IOS 4.
When I send her a message in japanese it appears as garbage, when she sends me a message in japanese it comes over fine.
Messaging in english works fine of course. Why is japanese not work properly?

Thanks for responding.  I forgot to clarify that I am now using a USA phone number and that the phone numbers I am texting are also USA numbers.  My service provider is Tmobile in the US.

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