diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a24f72b..a182304 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cwextab",
  "dyn-clone",
  "enable-ansi-support",
+ "encoding_rs",
  "filetime",
  "fixedbitset 0.5.7",
  "flagset",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 848e1d7..3906823 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ strip = "debuginfo"
 codegen-units = 1
 
 [dependencies]
+encoding_rs = "0.8"
 aes = "0.8"
 anyhow = { version = "1.0", features = ["backtrace"] }
 ar = { git = "https://github.com/bjorn3/rust-ar.git", branch = "write_symbol_table" }
diff --git a/src/obj/symbols.rs b/src/obj/symbols.rs
index 46b2a4e..56659b3 100644
--- a/src/obj/symbols.rs
+++ b/src/obj/symbols.rs
@@ -175,8 +175,10 @@ pub enum ObjDataKind {
     Float,
     Double,
     String,
+    ShiftJIS,
     String16,
     StringTable,
+    ShiftJISTable,
     String16Table,
     Int,
     Short,
diff --git a/src/util/asm.rs b/src/util/asm.rs
index d54951b..3fe73c5 100644
--- a/src/util/asm.rs
+++ b/src/util/asm.rs
@@ -668,6 +668,38 @@ where W: Write + ?Sized {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+use encoding_rs::SHIFT_JIS;
+
+fn write_string_shiftjis<W>(w: &mut W, data: &[u8]) -> Result<()>
+where W: Write + ?Sized {
+    if data.last() != Some(&0x00) {
+        bail!("Non-terminated Shift-JIS string");
+    }
+
+    let raw_data = &data[..data.len() - 1];
+
+    // Decode then write SJIS as comment above byte array
+    let (cow, _, _) = SHIFT_JIS.decode(raw_data);
+    write!(w, "\t# ")?;
+    for c in cow.chars() {
+        match c {
+            '#' => write!(w, "\\#")?,
+            _ => write!(w, "{}", c)?,
+        }
+    }
+
+    write!(w, "\n\t.byte ")?;
+    for (i, &b) in data.iter().enumerate() {
+        write!(w, "0x{:02X}", b)?;
+        if i + 1 != data.len() {
+            write!(w, ", ")?;
+        }
+    }
+
+    writeln!(w)?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 fn write_string16<W>(w: &mut W, data: &[u16]) -> Result<()>
 where W: Write + ?Sized {
     if matches!(data.last(), Some(&b) if b == 0) {
@@ -705,6 +737,12 @@ where W: Write + ?Sized {
         ObjDataKind::String => {
             return write_string(w, data);
         }
+        ObjDataKind::ShiftJIS => {
+            if data.is_empty() || data.last() != Some(&0x00) {
+                anyhow::bail!("Non-terminated Shift-JIS string");
+            }
+            return write_string_shiftjis(w, data);
+        }
         ObjDataKind::String16 => {
             if data.len() % 2 != 0 {
                 bail!("Attempted to write wstring with length {:#X}", data.len());
@@ -734,6 +772,12 @@ where W: Write + ?Sized {
             }
             return Ok(());
         }
+        ObjDataKind::ShiftJISTable => {
+            for slice in data.split_inclusive(|&b| b == 0) {
+                write_string_shiftjis(w, slice)?;
+            }
+            return Ok(());
+        }
         _ => {}
     }
     let chunk_size = match data_kind {
@@ -742,7 +786,9 @@ where W: Write + ?Sized {
         ObjDataKind::Byte | ObjDataKind::Byte8 | ObjDataKind::Double => 8,
         ObjDataKind::String
         | ObjDataKind::String16
+        | ObjDataKind::ShiftJIS
         | ObjDataKind::StringTable
+        | ObjDataKind::ShiftJISTable
         | ObjDataKind::String16Table => unreachable!(),
     };
     for chunk in remain.chunks(chunk_size) {
diff --git a/src/util/config.rs b/src/util/config.rs
index 2ee8d1a..743a8ee 100644
--- a/src/util/config.rs
+++ b/src/util/config.rs
@@ -329,8 +329,10 @@ fn symbol_data_kind_to_str(kind: ObjDataKind) -> Option<&'static str> {
         ObjDataKind::Float => Some("float"),
         ObjDataKind::Double => Some("double"),
         ObjDataKind::String => Some("string"),
+        ObjDataKind::ShiftJIS => Some("sjis"),
         ObjDataKind::String16 => Some("wstring"),
         ObjDataKind::StringTable => Some("string_table"),
+        ObjDataKind::ShiftJISTable => Some("sjis_table"),
         ObjDataKind::String16Table => Some("wstring_table"),
         ObjDataKind::Int => Some("int"),
         ObjDataKind::Short => Some("short"),
@@ -382,8 +384,10 @@ fn symbol_data_kind_from_str(s: &str) -> Option<ObjDataKind> {
         "float" => Some(ObjDataKind::Float),
         "double" => Some(ObjDataKind::Double),
         "string" => Some(ObjDataKind::String),
+        "sjis" => Some(ObjDataKind::ShiftJIS),
         "wstring" => Some(ObjDataKind::String16),
         "string_table" => Some(ObjDataKind::StringTable),
+        "sjis_table" => Some(ObjDataKind::ShiftJISTable),
         "wstring_table" => Some(ObjDataKind::String16Table),
         "int" => Some(ObjDataKind::Int),
         "short" => Some(ObjDataKind::Short),