Mojibake in subjects in Mail.app

Sometimes (fairly often) Japanese email (e.g. charset ISO-2022-JP) arrives with the subjects unreadable (mojibake).
These same emails when viewed in Mail on my iPhone 5 running iOS 7 look just fine. And of course they always look fine directly in Gmail.
Furthering the problem, if I reply to the email like that, the recipient gets a corrupted subject back, and sometimes even an entire corrupted email.
Is there a way to get Mail.app to not corrupt the Japanese subjects?
Thanks,
Doug

I don't think there is anything you do to fix how Mail does such things (other than perhaps run your entire OS in Japanese). Let Apple know via
http://www.apple.com/feedback
When you do View > Message > Raw Source, what sort of encoding is indicated in the subject line?

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