Ah, merely that there is no way to avoid romanization, since the setting to disable it is only for Save-to-disk exports. I understood this:
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Originally Posted by AColobus
My test author was Banana Yoshimoto (吉本 ばなな) who is filed as [Ji Ben banana]. I tried just adding an s, closing the metadata screen to save the change, and then removing it. Unfortunately, even though my import preferences are now set to "do not transliterate", this simply renamed the folder to [Ji Ben bananas], then returned the contents to the original folder when the s was removed.
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to be trying to get native Japanese characters in the folder names in calibre.
And I guess since you managed to find an interface language which results in an acceptable romanization, all is good.

Make sure to keep calibre set to that interface language, at least whenever you add new books or change author/title metadata.