Okay, I posted a thread last week and the issue wasn't resolved... I think my code was misunderstood. If anyone wants to take a look, here's the thread.
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=478486
In that thread, I was told "Kakasi doesn't do anything w/ an ASCII based string." Well, obviously. I wasn't passing it one. :/

Code below attmpets OOP style and non-OOP. I assume it's a problem w/ one of the options, but I've tried more than a few different combinations. FYI $str holds an EUC encoded kanji. Coincidentally, so does $jpn and $nstr. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::Kakasi;

open ( OUT, ">poo" ) || die $!;

my $str = "ËâË¡";
my $k = Text::Kakasi->new('-JH','-c','-w','-i euc','-o euc');
$k->set('-w', '-c', '-JH', '-i euc', '-o euc');

my $jpn = $k->get($str);
print OUT "$str = $jpn ". "\n";
print OUT "error = " . $k->error . "\n";

my $res = Text::Kakasi::getopt_argv('-JH', '-c', '-w');
my $nstr = Text::Kakasi::do_kakasi($str);

print OUT "jpn = $nstr\n";

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