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If you need to extract many such files, temporarily change your Windows system locale to Japanese. Go to > Clock and Region > Region . Click the Administrative tab. Click Change system locale... and select Japanese (Japan) .

This archive tool is generally better at detecting Japanese encoding automatically and often manages it without changing system settings.

7zzs (standalone 7-Zip) can be used without installation. If you tell me: Are you using Windows or macOS/Linux ? Are you using the GUI or Command Line ? I can provide the exact command or steps for your setup. Encrypting and decrypting archives with 7-Zip - Red Hat Japanese.7z

Version 19 and later have improved handling of Japanese half-width kana, reducing the occurrence of garbled text.

Here is a complete write-up to handle, fix, and extract Japanese.7z files properly. 1. Identifying the Issue If you need to extract many such files,

This is the most reliable method for handling Japanese character encoding directly. Open Command Prompt or Terminal.

If the archive is a .zip containing Japanese characters, sometimes WinRAR handles it better, though 7-Zip is preferred for actual .7z formats. 3. Summary of 7-Zip Features for Japanese Files Click Change system locale

A file containing Japanese characters often results in garbled file names (mojibake) when extracted on a system not set to Japanese locale. This happens because the archive likely uses an old non-Unicode character encoding (like Shift-JIS/Code Page 932) to store filenames.