Mysql With Japanese Characters

I am trying to figure out how to create a table such that I can insert Japanese names into it. Right now I have: Type: InnoDB Encoding: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) Collation: utf8_general

Solution 1:

Doing an ALTER to charset utf8 solved the issue:

ALTER TABLE title MODIFY 
    column VARCHAR (100)
    CHARACTER SET utf8
    COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;