Hiragana console font for GNU/Linux?

This guide doesn't give the information I need, saying only:

Please be aware that japanese is not possible on purely console mode, unless you have an advanced text mode AND a special software.

Surely I don't need to create my own custom consolefont to show hiragana on the Linux console?! Or do I?

Solution 1:

Most of the text consoles are not designed to show CJK characters. To display CJK characters, try zhcon, which is a virtual console environment that can display double-byte CJK characters.

Solution 2:

if any fonts are here: /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/, they need to be passed to mkinitrd to apply at boot. do not expect good reflowing, but in general it will be spelled letter by letter and readable.