Japanese date format "YYYY年MM月DD日" is not recognized as a number on date type on Axis format in Chart How to reproduce the problem. Tool->Option->Language Settings->Languages->Locale setting "Japanese" 1.File->New->Spreadsheet 2.Input value A1=1/1,A2=1/2,A3=1/3,A4=1/4,A5=1/5 and B1=1,B2=2,B3=3,B4=4,B5=5 3.Select A1:B5 4.Create Column Chart(used Wizard) 5.Chart area double-click and right-click on X axis 6.[Format Axis] click on context-menu 7.[Scale]tab click and "Date" select in [Type]listbox 8.[Automatic]check-box in [Maximum] is unchecked 9.[Maximum]value changes "2011年1月5日" to "2011年1月3日" 10.Open dialog box "Numbers are required. Check your input." 11.[Maximum]value changes "2011年1月5日" to "2011/1/3" and [OK] click. 12.Open dialog box "Numbers are required. Check your input." again. 13.[Maximum]value changes "2011年1月3日" to "2011/1/3" and Enter key down. 14.Chart changes. I think that date format changes "YYYY年MM月DD日" to "YYYY/MM/DD" in [Maximum] and [Minimum]text-box in Japanese locale.
This bug has been fixed in 3.4.0rc1.