Welcome to Gaming Japan! I'm sorry to say that the Gaming Japan blog is on hiatus. Since finishing my MBA, I've started working full time in IT market research, and I haven't been able to keep up with the blog. I do still find time once in a while to put together a freelance article for my editor at Gamespot.com, so if you're interested, please head over and take a look. Questions, comments, want to know how to say "side-scrolling action game" in Japanese? Drop me a line at "dan at gaming japan dot net". May 16, 2005 - I'm at E3 2005 now and over the next few days, I'll interpret for (in chronological order) Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Atsushi Inaba, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Yoot Saito. Could I be more excited? It's better than sharing box seats with the President and the Pope at the Super Bowl.