Really appreciate your input. I have of course read through all the posts but actually knowing what one needs is half the problem... I just installed your Japanese Address Order fix and it looks good. As I have been already messing around with address formatting with Dr. Byte’s assistance I did not use your particular format, though it mine is almost the same...

I am not having any problems with EMAIL_GREET in the English mails that are being sent out... The English emails being sent out, are properly formatted: Dear Mr. Jones.

It is the Japanese side that is about face... I have tried searching for files to edit from both the E side and the J side but have had no luck..

Basically, I have looked in the create_account.php (includes/languages/english/mytemplate but cannot work out how to change it... I believe this is the area that I need to edit:

// greeting salutation
define('EMAIL_SUBJECT', STORE_NAME . '?????');
define('EMAIL_GREET_MR', '%s ?' . "\n\n");
define('EMAIL_GREET_MS', '%s ?' . "\n\n");
define('EMAIL_GREET_NONE', '%s ?' . "\n\n");

In the Japanese side I believe I must change %s which currently calls up the first name, (yet calls up the last name on the English side) Perhaps I have something configured wrong, but I do not know where to go...

As for the Order Confirmation email lacking a samma, I found that checkout_process.php contains the relevant text but there does not seem to be anything connected to the persons name so I am not sure how to add samma into the code... Here is the code as it stands:

// $Id: checkout_process.php 1969 2005-09-13 06:57:21Z drbyte $
//

define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', '??????????????');
define('EMAIL_TEXT_HEADER', '?????');
define('EMAIL_TEXT_FROM',' from '); //added to the EMAIL_TEXT_HEADER, above on text-only emails
define('EMAIL_THANKS_FOR_SHOPPING','??????????????');
define('EMAIL_DETAILS_FOLLOW','??????????????');
define('EMAIL_TEXT_ORDER_NUMBER', '?????:');

And here is a sample of what I see in the new order email:
????? from GPC Store

?? ??

??????????????
??????????????etc...
************

Look forward to hearing any suggestions...