Working in Chinese in InDesign

I am formatting a 300+ page publication in Chinese using InDesign and world tools. I have it set to Japanese paragraph format. My problem is that in many cases a comma, period or bracket will get moved to the next line and not stay with the previous character. How do I get the punctuation to stay with the previous character.  I started putting in no break from the character setting but there is just too many to do this every time. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
karen

I believe I have solved the problem as I needed to set the kinoku and mojikumi to simplified Chinese this seems to be working okay now.

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