For quite some time now, I have been looking for a good-looking and license-compatible Japanese font set that could be included in Haiku R1. Haiku does have a Japanese font called Konatsu, and while it does work, it is not very well suited as a general font for the overal UI. I think I have found something that is worth taking a close look: the VLGothic font set.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/koki/2007-01-27_playing_with_japanese_fonts/