Yes, " and the small circle that kinda looks like a degrees sign º.

The dot (handakuten mark) is where it ends, so to speak.  Those other letters and 1987 are more like graphics than a font, since they're only used for what looks like a copyright on the title screen and, possibly, "PRESS START".  As for the other Japanese characters, you don't need to add them to your English table. 

They can be used for other things later, though, to make your font look nicer.  For example, a lot of the time menus will be really narrow and you can only fit 4 characters in them.  Rather than figuring out how to expand the menu size, you might be better off cramming a word like "MAGIC" into 4 tiles by drawing up two tiles that spell out "GIC".  This won't look too bad if done correctly, since the I is so narrow.  Another example is to squeeze some commonly used triple-character strings into two tiles, or to cram some really narrow double-character strings into one tile (typically anything involving lowercase i or l).  Don't go overboard, though, because if the "squishy tiles" are too obvious, they'll look really bad.

Japanese is a lot more simple language than most European ones, like English or french. It's certainly easier for us to learn European languages,because they got things in common. But I find Japanese sentences structure, grammar, conjugation, etc. far more simple, basic.

I said it was not a difficult language, I never said it was not difficult to learn (at least for Europeans and assimilated), vocabulary being the biggest difficulty.

The problem with me, it's simply a lack of practice. Also, when you can understand a sentence, that does not mean you will be able to translate it easily, or even correctly.

looks like tsu ya yu yo (the small versions). not sure why yu is so ugly though...

100% right.

I think your next step is Relitive Searching and there is a good, straight forward guide for that here http://www.romhacking.net/docs/68/ and it discusses some other text finding tactics in there as well.

Sorry I've read quite a bit lately on translating and none of it seems to be working on Puyo Puyo so I'm not getting the real benift of what I'm reading and it's all sort of merging together and I forget what follows what >_<

I haven't used Rom Juice yet since I haven't got a table file on the go and I haven't saw any manuals/tutorials kicking about I don't think but I think there was something else you can do since you have the table file, wasn't using Thingy the next step?

EDIT - Ok I'm still reading and I think this guide has your next steps in it http://www.romhacking.net/docs/62/