Ultra-right nationalists are less about preserving culture in Japan, and more about condoning (or denying, in the way some deny the Holocaust) Japanese war crimes, bullying+harassing "Koreans" who have been naturalised Japanese for a century or more, and wishing to create an even more antagonistic and racist (read:…

It's about the oil near to the islands, really. But yes, let it be known that ultra-nationalists are not the only Japanese weighing in on the issue - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/01/haruki-murakami-hysteria-islands-row

Japan's xenophobia is more worthy of bringing up for two reasons - one, that people idealise (and indeed idolise) Japan. Two, that Japan purports to be the "Western nation" of Asia, yet in so many ways refuses to act like it. Its struggles to accept ethnic Koreans who've lived in Japan for a century, only speak…

Unneeded for him because he already owns it

Don't put words into my mouth! The riots and destruction wreaked by the Chinese protestors have been a disgrace, and it's more shameful that the Chinese government has been egging them on. Civil Protest is far more preferable. However, this "protest" was a move by an ultra-rightest party to make media publications…

"it's just that if it turns out to be true, i just could have just chosen Kid Icarus instead of KH3D." That's entirely fair enough, then!

Violent protests have existed in Japan for a while (remember that violence was a very culturally-Japanese-associated trait pre-1945), but it's mostly died down since the 1970s.

The Chinese media is much worse than the Western or Japanese press, for sure.

Civil protests are great! But this isn't a public gathering type protest, this is an organised group from a certain political party doing this as a PR stunt. Not as bad as the rampant (and government-encouraged!) violent protests in China, but not exactly 'good' either.

It was a Japanese friend of mine that pointed out who this group were, actually. I have yet to talk to a Chinese person about this protest. The Chinese protests were awful and irrational in their own ways, but this is a dangerous beast of another sort.

As someone who's lived across Asia for a number of years, I can tell you that the "Japan is a peaceful civil utopia" line is full of asiaphiliac bullshit. Japan has some seriously great stuff (no intrenched government, some of the world's best infrastructure, high level of higher education, etc), but it also has a…

It's not the same kind of protest. China's was very much a demonstration that, while encouraged by lower level government officials, wasn't organised and was merely a group of angered civilians engaging in irrational forms of protest. This protest in Japan is a carefully orchestrated PR move by a semi-racist rightist…

Race-relations are massively tied up with both Chinese and Japanese nationalism. The racism is the part where this group wants the "savage China VS civilised Japan" comparison made as much as possible, to further their own aims of keeping out Chinese immigrants (and generally other 'lesser' East Asians as they see…

It'd be unfortunate that you get an unneeded free game, even if that might be the only way lots of people could play it? Now I'm all sad :(

It's a rightist Ganbare Nippon-dan march - known for their tactics such as this. They saw violent protests in China, and hope by conducting a civil protest using their own members under strict instructions of how to behave, they can paint China as 'the savage' and Japan as 'the civilised'. Racists hoping to spur…

It basically sounds like Cage of Eden but in a videogame setting. Mystery/exploration elements, constant danger, society-building, leadership dilemmas, constant tragedy and worst-possible-outcomes...

Yeah I'm guessing he just got the number mixed up. I kept thinking it was 30, even though I was buying a handful of them a year at one point

On the plus side, if this goes international, Europe will finally get Chain of Memories for consoles!

The fact that they left out KH2 makes it fairly plain that they'll be doing another collection - Re:Coded and BbS seem like obvious candidates for putting with that in an HD collection.

Broken Sword had some incredibly unnoticeable (yet noticeably absent from the GBA port!) voice acting. Brilliant stuff. Somehow I suspect it's more to do with the pool of voice actors these games draw upon - after years of playing voice acted games good and bad, I'm coming to suspect that the crowd that dub all this…