In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

Several months after the original film's Japanese release, an English dub of the film was distributed internationally by Manga Entertainment to critical acclaim, developing the film's fanbase outside of Japan.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

It also includes the liner notes from the 2001 release ( in English ), an insert with the lyrics in English and Japanese and an OBI strip.

The film would not see a US release until 1992, two years after the game's Japanese release, so the game is often thought to be a standalone adaptation of Little Nemo, not related to the film.

The Japanese release of Red, White & Crüe includes an extra new track titled " I'm a Liar ( and That's the Truth )".

The episode remained on the Japanese DVD release.

These are also available only with re-done Japanese audio with English subtitles, the DVDs identical to the 20th anniversary release of the movie compilation in Japan.

This DVD release is the first version of the film in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version.

By 1993 the 32-bit 3DO platform was released with much developer interest and Sega and Sony let it be known that the Sega Saturn and PlayStation would be ready for the Japanese marketplace in late 1994, and Bandai was also readying the release of their Playdia system.

The first public release of Ruby 0. 95 was announced on Japanese domestic newsgroups on December 21, 1995.

The Japanese release for the PC Engine was split across two game cards ( HuCards ) titled R-Type I and R-Type II and the later North American release for the TurboGrafx 16 contained the entire game on a single card.

The North American and European versions include all eight levels while the Japanese release is split between two downloads, mirroring the original release formats for each region respectively.

In the PlayStation 3's communitarian-based social gaming network, PlayStation Home, Irem has released a Game Space in the Japanese Home to promote the release of R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate on the PSP and PSPgo.

A 2002 press release about the origins of the modern game makes no mention of the original version: Othello was invented by Japanese game enthusiast, Goro Hasegawa in 1971.

In the retail Japanese video release, some of the deleted scenes were restored to the first seven episodes.

Street Fighter IV, which incorporated online multiplayer modes, was released in early 2009 to critical acclaim, having garnered praise since its release at Japanese arcades in 2008.

Over £ 150m is spent annually on Japanese knotweed control, and a decision was taken on 9 March 2010 in the UK to release into the wild a Japanese psyllid insect, Aphalara itadori.

For example, track one on " FAMILY RACING " was actually titled " FAMILY RACING " instead of " Opening " on the Japanese release.

Radiation injuries to Marshall Islanders and Japanese fishermen made that fact public and revealed the role of fission in hydrogen bombs.

As of February 2006, over $ 1. 2 billion were paid under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 to U. S. citizens exposed to nuclear hazards as a result of the U. S. nuclear weapons program, and by 1998 at least $ 759 million was paid to the Marshallese Islanders in compensation for their exposure to U. S. nuclear testing, and over $ 15 million was paid to the Japanese government following the exposure of its citizens and food supply to nuclear fallout from the 1954 " Bravo " test.

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

Instead of running on wires as in the Chinese and Japanese models, the beads of Roman model run in grooves, presumably making arithmetic calculations much slower.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

Throughout this period Ainu became increasingly dependent on goods imported by Japanese, and suffered from epidemic diseases such as smallpox.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

Pony Canyon is a major leader in the music industry in Japan, with its artists regularly at the top of the Japanese charts.

* 1998: Fission, Jens Johansson, Japanese bonus track Straffpolska Från Sudan, Pony Canyon

A Japanese deal was signed with Pony Canyon Records at the same time.

In 1994 he signed with Japanese record company Pony Canyon, where he re-recorded some of his greatest hits and wrote new compositions.

The Japanese release of This Strange Engine ( on the Pony Canyon label, released in March 1997 ) contains the bonus tracks " Beautiful ( Acoustic )" and " Made Again ( Acoustic )".

) is a Japanese pop boy band that is managed by Vision Factory and has been signed to the Pony Canyon label since 2000.

is a 1986 Japanese video game for the Nintendo Famicom and PC-8801 by Pony Inc.

Heaven and Earth is an album by " ProjeKct X " released in 2000 on the Pony Canyon label as a Japanese Exclusive Release.

They released one album, " Party Animals ", on the Pony / Canyon label in Japan, followed by a Japanese tour.