Japanese in MySQL

[Keitaro]

Hi,

I am developing a vocabulary trainer.
The languages I want to support are German and Japanese.
When I try to store Japanese characters in my mysql database, I do not
get the correct characters. The entry of the field is "???" instead of
the Japanese character. I tried to store the character with my java
application and with the MySQL Control Center. I know I have to
configure the mysql database. But I do not know how. I created my
database with the following sql statements:

CREATE TABLE vocab
(
Japanese VARCHAR(100) CHARACTER SET utf8,
German VARCHAR(100) CHARACTER SET utf8
);

But this did not work.
I hope you can help me, because I have a lot of Japanese words to
learn ;-)

Ciao
Keitaro