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.

While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

In the first few years after its establishment, the Japanese branch of Capcom had three development groups referred to as " Planning Rooms ", led by Tokuro Fujiwara, Takashi Nishiyama and Yoshiki Okamoto, respectively.

In the original Japanese version, these three ( along with the rest of Dr. Gero's artificial creations ) are referred to as jinzouningen, which is a blanket term in Japanese science fiction applying to robots and androids, as well as cyborgs.

For example, the previous emperor is usually called Hirohito in English, although he was never referred to as Hirohito in Japan, and was renamed Shōwa Tennō after his death, which is the only name that Japanese speakers currently use when referring to him.

The current emperor on the throne is typically referred to by the title Tennō Heika ( 天皇陛下, literally " His Majesty the heavenly sovereign ") or Kinjō Heika ( 今上陛下, literally " his current majesty ") or simply Tennō when speaking Japanese.

The current Emperor will be renamed Heisei Tennō ( 平成天皇 ) after his death and will then be referred to exclusively by that name in Japanese.

In the older Japanese documents, he was usually referred as Haitei ( 廃帝 ), the unthroned emperor.

Yūryaku is believed to be referred to as Bu in contemporary Chinese records ( 武 ; read as Take or Takeru in Japanese ).

Since family names are normally written last in European societies ( except in Hungary ), the term last name is commonly used for family name, while in East Asia ( with vertical writing ) the family name may be referred to as upper name ( as in Japanese ).

The name " Gomoku " is from the Japanese language, in which it is referred to as.

Although supposedly equal to all other members, Kusanagi fills the leadership role in the team, and is usually referred to as " the Major " due to her past rank in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin-script alphabet ( referred to in Japanese as romaji ).

On April 19, 1988, Japanese telecommunications company NTT began offering nationwide ISDN services trademarked INS Net 64, and INS Net 1500, a fruition of NTT's independent research and trial from the 1970s of what it referred to the INS ( Information Network System ).

For three decades from 1960, Japan experienced rapid economic growth, which was referred to as the Japanese post-war economic miracle.

To put it another way, the people who are dedicated to making these kinds of foods may not be referred to as an itamae, the term for a Japanese cuisine chef.

In Japanese, the scabbard for a nihontō is referred to as a saya, and the handguard piece, often intricately designed as an individual work of art — especially in later years of the Edo period — was called the tsuba.

Chung Feng Ming Pen ( 中峰明本 1263 – 1323 ) wrote that kung-an is an abbreviation for kung-fu an-tu ( 公府之案牘, Pinyin gōngfǔ zhī àndú, pronounced in Japanese as kōfu no antoku ), which referred to a " public record " or the " case records of a public law court " in Tang-dynasty China.

(, ), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

The wai is similar in form to the gesture referred to by the Japanese term gassho by Buddhists.

Ramen has such prominence in the region that locally, the word soba usually refers to ramen, and not to actual soba which is referred to as nihon soba (" Japanese soba ").

The Primary Rate Interface ( PRI ) consists of 23 64-kbit / s B-channels and one 64-kbit / s D-channel using a T1 line, often referred to as " 23B + D ", ( North American and Japanese standard ) or 30 B-channels and one D-channel using an E1 line ( Europe / rest of world ).

The Helirin makes a cameo appearance as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee, but is incorrectly referred to as " Heririn " in the American version due to the nature of the Japanese language.