Criminality is the theme of this week's two-hour special edition of "Jitsuroku Sekai no Mystery" ("True Accounts of World Mysteries"; TV Tokyo, Mon., 9 p.m.). The main segment recounts a terrorist incident. On Dec. 11, 1994, Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was en route from Cebu to Narita when a bomb exploded, killing one Japanese man and injuring 10 others. The pilot was able to land the aircraft safely. The device had been planted by a famous international terrorist traveling under a false name who had been on the previous leg of the flight.
The special also looks at the daring escape of two convicts from one of New York's maximum-security prisons in 2000. Though the escape was amazing enough, the story of what happened to the two men later is even more astounding.
Many Japanese terms utilize foreign words for unique meanings. "American coffee" describes a weaker brew and has no cognate in the U.S., unless you consider all American coffee weak by definition.