How to use JIS X 0208 or JIS2004 as default Japanese font with Emacs on RHEL6 - Red Hat Customer Portal

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Issue

Red Hat will not use JIS2004 font as default font in RHEL6, however emacs-23.1-18.el6 (prior to 21.el6) wrongly used JIS2004 font as default.
This bug was fixed on emacs-23.1-21.el6 (or later).
So please be aware that:
1. emacs-23.1-18.el6 (prior to 21.el6), due to the bug, wrongly used JIS2004 (JIS X 0213:2004) as default font.
2. emacs-23.1-21.el6 (or later), fixed version, will use JIS X 0208 (JIS X 0208:1990) as default font.
The fonts displayed slightly differently in some cases, and some of the characters may not be able to be displayed in normal terminals.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
emacs-23.1-18.el6 (prior to 21.el6) / emacs-23.1-21.el6 or later

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