Double Byte character sets

I am having a problem passing Japanese text from the client IE browser to a
JRUN servlet thru an HTML form.  When I get the value out of the Request
object on the server, the text is corrupted.  My pages are set to UTF-8
encoding.  I am posting the form.  What could be wrong?  What am I missing?
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks in advance
Eric