To Japanese programmers

If you are a Japanese programmer, please read:

USE UNICODE GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!

Profs at university here will tell you: OKAY GUYS, THIS IS A STRING: const char* string = "HELLO WORLD!". (Most of the time they will even omit const and let their studends figure out the hard way that writing to such a string is a bad idea). Anyway, in 4 years of university, not a single person ever mentioned wchar_t, character encoding, character set conversion or anything else you'd need in a post-90's programming environment.

I figure that Japanese people would have the same problems. It works fine on their computer, so why bother and change it? Those westerners can fuck themselves, right?