The japanese template won't work without the <nobr> tags though. But I suspect they won't create a problem with the xhtml+xml mode. More likely it's the broken entities. I fixed those for the next release.
>>15iirc, the w3c validator complained about the <nobr> tags... you could just replace them with <span style="white-space:nowrap;">...
<nobr>
<span style="white-space:nowrap;">