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I have double-checked that everything on my system is set to English. Japanese doesn't appear anywhere. I've uninstalled VLC including all the Library files and folders and reinstalled with the newest version three times over the past 6 months, most recently today. Still in Japanese. The only thing that has made me able to revert VLC to English is to duplicate the English language file in the VLC folders, rename it to the name of the Japanese one, and replace the Japanese language file with a duplicate of the English one. This only works until the next time I restart and then everything is in Japanese again. There is literally nothing that should be causing this. It has been going on for about 6 months now and I'm fed up. I need to fix this somehow.

One of the following may be the cause:
1. Corrupt preference files.
Delete the folder org.videolan.vlc and the file org.videolan.vlc.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/

2. Corrupt application cache.
Delete the folder org.videolan.vlc from ~/Library/Caches/

3. Corrupt copy of VLC.
Download a fresh copy of the VLC stable (currently 2.1.5) DMG, or nightly (currently 2.2.0 and 3.0.0) ZIP file and reinstall.

As I mentioned originally, I have already tried all of those things multiple times.

Apologies, I must've misread. However, this causes concern. There is no logical reason for this other than what was already mentioned. All I can think of in addition is deleting all of the foreign language resources from VLC. It doesn't seem to complain when they are missing (at least prior versions didn't).

Contrary to other applications, VLC's language resources aren't the *.lproj folders in the Resources folder (with the exception of English.lproj which holds the American English defaults), as each 'language folder' just contains aliases to InfoPlist.strings and MainMenu.nib in English.lproj.

The actual resources are in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/locale/ delete every folder in there except for en_GB. VLC should then have no choice but to use English, even if it glitches, as the only additional language resource data remaining would be for British English.

It may not solve the cause of the issue, but it should hopefully at least have the desired effect.

Yeah, I've done that before (although rather than deleting I just replaced the ja_JP with the en_GB) and it does work. But after restarting (or maybe after VLC updated, I can't be sure, and that would make more sense) it was suddenly Japanese again. Maybe I'll just have to write a script to run whenever I log in that checks for other folders in that location besides en_GB and deletes them if they exist. Uncomfortably duct-tapey solution, but I suppose it doesn't seem like there's any other recourse.

Having same problem getting English in Finland. Has to be VLC program.

One of the following may be the cause:
1. Corrupt preference files.
Delete the folder org.videolan.vlc and the file org.videolan.vlc.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/

Don't forget go have VLC closed if you do this, and _directly_ restart osx afterwards, without starting VLC again in between. This is especially important on OSX 10.9.