SQL Dev and Japanese charcaters stored in MDB file

I linked a MS Access MDB file to SQL Developer and when I try to open the mdb file storing Japanese characters it only displays question marks in the data preview.
Opening the MDB file in MS Access it shows the characters correctly.
SQL Developer settings in Tools Preferences:
Environment preference, "Encoding" -->MS932
Code Editor -> Fonts -> "Font Name"-->DialogInput (when copying/pasting the content of the MDB file into the "Sample Text" line it shows up correctly.
I tried to play around with these settings, but without success. Even setting up a Japanese Windows system does not solve the issue.
What settings are required to get the data of the MDB file displayed correctly?

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