Problems with foreign characters

I've had the problem of iTunes not displaying foreign (Japanese in my case) characters. I do have proper language packs installed and I've seen these characters work on other people's computers. My iPod displays them perfectly too. Is there a setting within iTunes I need to change?
I've also already tried a reinstall of Windows and a reinstall of iTunes.

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Recently, over the last few versions I have been unable to play any of my media that includes foreign characters, be it Asian characters or accented Roman characters. The fact of the matter is that upon attempting to play a song / audiobook / movie with a foreign character iTunes crashes.
I am using iTunes 10.6.1.7 on Windows 7 64-bit in English (UK) with non-unicode set to Japanese.
Windows crash report:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:          BEX
Application Name:          iTunes.exe
Application Version:          10.6.1.7
Application Timestamp:          4f71aced
Fault Module Name:          amip.dll
Fault Module Version:          2.6.7.0
Fault Module Timestamp:          4b63548c
Exception Offset:          000b5954
Exception Code:          c000000d
Exception Data:          00000000
OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:          2057
Additional Information 1:          3191
Additional Information 2:          319160cfbcc1295d9ca9b4d448d8f7e3
Additional Information 3:          62c3
Additional Information 4:          62c3b5fb8ab287fc898b342b661d3806
The media with foreign characters syncs with my iPhone okay, and will play without issue on it; just iTunes is unable to play said media on my computer, which is highly frustrating.
I would be appreciative if someone has found and would share any work-around to this problem. Thanks.

I still have no thorough concept on how I have solved this but I suppose if anyone else has encountered this issue I can share how I worked around it:
I changed my windows system non-unicode locale back to its default (English UK).
I then installed Microsoft AppLocale to handle the programs that would be affected.
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