Japanese with UTF-8 and mysql

Hi All, I have my settings in php.ini set for UTF-8, and the encoding for the mysql database table's column that is using Japanese to UTF-8. Now, if I view the data stored in that column in phpmyadmin, via say, firefox, it displays in UTF-8, but, if I pull the code from the database and display it in a UTF-8 set page, it is just ? marks, although static J text displays fine...any thoughts on this..? Driving me nutz. Cheers. Mark Sargent.