Which browser are you using? Is this happening with all Japanese web sites? I just tried this with Internet Explorer (I used both the print to Adobe PDF function and the "Convert" function that Acrobat installs on the IE toolbar), and text comes over as real text, and not rendered to a bitmap. For my tests, I used http://cnn.co.jp
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