MySQL with Japanese characters

Question

I am trying to figure out how to create a table such that I can insert Japanese names into it. Right now I have:

Type: InnoDB
Encoding: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
Collation: utf8_general_ci

However, when I insert the characters, it shows up as ????. And when I retrieve the data using SELECT, it also shows up as ????. What do I need to do such that I can properly store and retrieve Japanese characters (kanji, hiragana, and katakana)?

Answer 1

Doing an ALTER to charset utf8 solved the issue:

ALTER TABLE title MODIFY 
    column VARCHAR (100)
    CHARACTER SET utf8
    COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;