I have just started using latex and I am trying to display Japanese characters on a beamer presentation. I use Miktex on a Windows 7 OS. I have tried every possible example file and tutorial that I found using xelatex of pdflatex, installed all sorts of packages to enable Japanese support and downloaded dozens of japanese fonts. After hours of bug-fixing, I always end up with obscure errors leading to unanswered posts on forgotten threads... In my most successful attempt, I used xelatex with this file ->
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}abc 因子の部屋\end{CJK}
\end{document}
This file doesn't give me error messages, but the output on the pdf file is just "abc" (the japanese is not displayed). I also get this warning:
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available
(Font) size <5> substituted on input line 8.
And nothing else that looks like an error. As I said before, I failed all other foolproof methods/tutorials found here an there on the web (I even crashed my whole PC just by updating a Miktex package), so please be patient with me... Thank you!
EDIT: I don't think this is a duplicate because I tried all that was written in the "duplicate" question and a dozen others before I posted mine, and it did not solve the problem. For the liked "duplicate" example, I got this error message:
Font shape `C70/min/m/n' undefined
Which is apparently because Miktex for windows 7 lacks some font files for ms mincho that I already downloaded and are still not recognized.
xeCJKwith a proper font is necessary.