# Retrieving Japanese characters as junk
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-japanese-characters-as-junk/29949
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 24, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-japanese-characters-as-junk/29949 "2015-09-24T22:21:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ksams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ksams)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-japanese-characters-as-junk/29949/1 "2015-09-24T22:21:35Z")
I am storing both English and Japanese in the same field. Data getting stored correctly. But while Retrieving the data, japanese characters coming as junk. URI request is working fine. Only Query Request is having this issue. should i include anything specific in query request?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Joshua\_Rich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joshua_Rich)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-japanese-characters-as-junk/29949/2 "2015-09-25T04:35:19Z")
This sounds like a character encoding issue in your client. You should make sure your query client is speaking UTF-8.
As a side note, you should not mix languages like this, see the [Pitfalls of Mixing Languages](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/language-pitfalls.html) chapter from the definitive guide. Try to aim for either one language per document or one language per field, and/or use one of the strategies listed in [Mixed-Language Fields](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/mixed-lang-fields.html).
Finally, not sure if you are using it, but you probably want to look at using the [kuromoji plugin](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-analysis-kuromoji) for analyzing the Japanese text.
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### Author:  [@ksams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ksams)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-japanese-characters-as-junk/29949/3 "2015-09-25T15:44:23Z")
Thanks.
Its working fine i.e able to retrieve mixed languages when using URI request. But the problem is only when using Query Request
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-japanese-characters-as-junk/29949/4 "2017-07-05T23:48:03Z")