I have tried using a English version SS to transfer Chinese song with chinese word(japanese kanji), it works beautifully. this is how I did it: firstly I have changed reg, just cleck start button on you desktop and cleck run, then type regedit and run it. change the UTOC4 Value from 4 to 3 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sony Corporation\OpenMG\PD\{F7D5CB7D-61E5-4258-AD3B-726DBAB5162C} and change the "ShowTitleHalf" value to 1 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHIE\Software\Sony Corporation\SonicStage\PD then you need download a software called GB2Shift-Jis for change the code of chinese word(from GB2132 code to Shift-Jis), just search on the google. only thing needed to do when you transfering your music is type the name in GB2Shift-Jis software and change the code then copy and paste in the sonicstage.