Haven't worked with Japanese, but I have experienced Perl/Oraperl issues with Oracle related to character sets.

My only advice would be to ensure that you have the following Oracle environment settings set in your Perl environment prior to connecting 

ORA_NLS
ORA_NLS33
NLS_LANG

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this can be done via the following (your values will obviously differ) 
$ENV{ORA_NLS}="/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/migrate/nls/admin/data";
$ENV{ORA_NLS33}="/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/migrate/nls/admin/data";
$ENV{NLS_LANG}="AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII";

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Hope this is helpful...good luck!

In reply to Re: UTF-8, Oracle and Perl life by wardk
in thread UTF-8, Oracle and Perl life by Akira71

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