Take a Column, Split it into New Columns Example table: 

  ID    CB        CB2   CB3   CB4  
  ----  --------  ----  ----  ---- 
  1     亀 龜 龜
  2     竜 龒 


Note: Each character is separated by a space.
Note: The number of characters in CB varies.

I would like to move each character in column CB (after the first) to its own, separate, column, so that no more than one character is in each column. 

Like this:

  ID    CB    CB2   CB3   CB4    
  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----
  1      亀    龜    龜
  2      竜    龒


(SQLite)
Worked with an example of CB column with maximum character size of 3 sqllite(WeB),just a demonstration how to split characters.

   CREATE TABLE TABLE1 (ID number,CB text(3),CB2 text(1),CB3 text(1),CB4 text(1));

INSERT INTO TABLE1 VALUES(1,'ABC','','','');
INSERT INTO TABLE1 VALUES(2,'DE','','','');

  select id,
CASE  
 WHEN LENGTH(CB) &gt;= 1 THEN SUBSTR(CB,1,1) 
 END CB,

CASE    
 WHEN LENGTH(CB) &gt;= 2 THEN SUBSTR(CB,2,1) 
 END CB2,

CASE    
 WHEN LENGTH(CB) &gt;= 3 THEN SUBSTR(CB,3,1) 
 END CB3

from
table1


Note:Not a solution,you can work out from this idea.

Updating on same table 

   --table creation
CREATE TABLE TAB1 (ID integer,CB text(5),CB1 text(1),CB2 text(1),CB3 text(1),CB4 text(1));
 --- Insert sample rows  
 INSERT INTO TAB1 VALUES(1,'ABCDE','','','','');
 INSERT INTO TAB1 VALUES(2,'DE','','','','');
 INSERT INTO TAB1 VALUES(3,'KLM','','','','');

---update rows
  UPDATE tab1
  SET
    cb  = CASE WHEN length(cb) &gt; 1  THEN substr(cb,1,1)  END,
    cb1 = CASE WHEN length(cb) &gt;= 2  THEN substr(cb,2,1) END,
    cb2 = CASE WHEN length(cb) &gt;= 3  THEN substr(cb,3,1) END,
    cb3 = CASE WHEN length(cb) &gt;= 4  THEN substr(cb,4,1) END,
    cb4 = CASE WHEN length(cb) &gt;= 5  THEN substr(cb,5,1) END   
  WHERE id IN ( SELECT id FROM tab1);


If you have two tables just join by id(inner) and update target table by using case statement