I'm looking to make a sheet metal part to cut in laser, so far no problem ;-).
I would like to be able to cut out Japanese letters, i.e. write words in Japanese on them, I tried with fonts but it remains text in French. I already have the symbols I want in .png images. I attach as an example the type of thing I want to do but written vertically in the "Japanese" way.
Otherwise the image you have there (if the text is good), you pass it in SW with an outline detection and SW will transpose it into a sketch, or via another software like adobe or Inkskape to get out of the DXF ...
With a bit of research I used this site: https://www.google.fr/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=translate+name+en+japanese&revid=1507809464
To find the words with the right handwriting, and with the Sketch Text tool, I use the "@Meiryo" font that I found through Excel and place my text vertically. to write horizontally you have to take "Meiryo".