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    TO do this (site in japanese, admin in english), the best thing you can do is make a new language for everything. Translate everything from the admin to english, or translate everything from the site to japanese. This means that your language files will be bi-lingual. Just check the /language/english or /language/japanese folders in your XOOPS install, and in the modules folders themself as well.
Herko