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Japanese publisher Yuke’s announced that they will establish a US branch called “Yuke’s Company of America” this month, and will begin to publish game titles in North America. The first game will be the PS2 racing simulation game D1 Grand Prix, coming in summer 2006.
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  1. This is interesting. Any chance there's a return to the States in your future? You are, after all, an expert in the ways of the barbaric West... er, east, really.

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  2. That was me, incidentally.

    - Sean

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  3. It is unlikely; I am still well-and-largely-happily entrenched here in Osaka, and a return stateside is not on my list of immediate desires. Ping me in mail if you want the sordid details.

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