Not reproducible here on Debian, but the reason is very obvious ...
> Kubuntu 10.04 (i386)
> Virtualbox 3.1.8
> Language Japanese
> texlive-base(dvipdfmx) 2009-7
This is so horribly outdated that there is no way it can work.
platex and friends were introduced into TeX Live starting from 2008 and
and it took 2-3 years to get full support.
So, on a current system, with say TeX Live 2020 (Debian version here),
this is all working.
I think bugs from 2009 should be closed in 2020.
$ file hello.tex
hello.tex: LaTeX 2e document, UTF-8 Unicode text
$ cat hello.tex
\documentclass[a4paper]{jsarticle}
\begin{document}
Hello World ハローワールド 日本語のテスト
\end{document}
$ nkf --overwrite -e hello.tex
$ file hello.tex
hello.tex: LaTeX 2e document, ISO-8859 text # what a mischaracterization!
$ platex -kanji=euc hello.tex
This is e-pTeX, Version 3.14159265-p3.8.3-191112-2.6 (euc) (TeX Live
2020/Debian) (preloaded format=platex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./hello.tex
pLaTeX2e <2020-04-12> (based on LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 5)
L3 programming layer <2020-07-17>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/platex/jsclasses/jsarticle.cls
Document Class: jsarticle 2020/02/02 jsclasses (okumura, texjporg)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/platex/jsclasses/jslogo.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-dvips.def)
(./hello.aux) [1] (./hello.aux) )
Output written on hello.dvi (1 page, 344 bytes).
Transcript written on hello.log.
$ dvipdfmx hello.dvi
hello.dvi -> hello.pdf
[1]
2851 bytes written
$
Norbert
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[Kubuntu][dvipdfmx][Japanese] dvipdfmx can't create PDF by default
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