In message <keAshCG0M2Yt5A32xi@thumper.bellcore.com> on 06/09/92(01:31:10)
you Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com> wrote:
|This is using vanilla metamail, with MM_CHARSET set to iso-2022-jp. Any
|idea what's wrong? I'd love to actually see your name properly... --
|Nathaniel

ISO-2022-JP does not correspond to any single character set in X,
but is a sum of US-ASCII and Japanese JIS.
So you must specify two font sets for kterm, like this;

kterm -fn iso8859/1-font-name -fk kanji-font-name

I our site, following kanji-font is available:

% xlsfonts | grep jis
-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0
-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-110-100-100-c-160-jisx0208.1983-0
-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-160-jisx0208.1983-0
-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-240-jisx0208.1983-0
-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-230-75-75-c-240-jisx0208.1983-0
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-140-jisx0208.1983-0
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-jisx0201.1976-0
-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0
-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0
-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0
-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0
-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-230-75-75-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0

In our site, we can use kterm like this:

kterm -fk -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-140-jisx0208.1983-0

Of cource, kanji font names are usually aliased to shorter names.
Unfortunately, I don't know which fonts are public and available for you.
I enclosed the picture shows how README.jp looks like using kterm.

--
Yutaka Sato <ysato@etl.go.jp>
Information Base Section
ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY
1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan