After finding out about The Legend of Alfur, a Japanese indy-made FPS for the PC, it struck me how weird it was to hear the words "Japanese-made" and "FPS" in the same sentence. While typically thought of as "overly violent games from the West" in Japan, they have recently grown in popularity here in Japan. Call of Duty: Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 and 3 each sold a quite respectable 400k copies in Japan.

But despite there clearly being an FPS market, I couldn't for the life of me think of any first-person shooters made by a Japanese company. Could this be true? Have Japanese companies never dabbled in the FPS market? So off I went to do some research, and here's what I found.

(Note: The included games were all made in Japan by Japanese companies. That's why you won't see Metriod Prime or Killzone. Railshooters and lightgun games are not included unless you have free movement.)

Kileak: The DNA Imperative

The oldest Japanese-made FPS I could find was the original PlayStation launch title Kileak: The DNA Imperative (1995). This game featured first-person shooting via Mech Suit and tons of bad CG cut scenes. It wasn't very good.

Resident Evil Survivor

There was a time when gamers couldn't get enough of Raccoon City, and Capcom was happy to oblige. What we got was Resident Evil Survivor (2000) for the PSX—a non-canon Resident Evil FPS that could optionally use the Namco GunCon controller. Thus its claim to fame is that it's counted as one of the first off-rail, lightgun games. It is also not very good.

Outtrigger

For the release of the Dreamcast, Sega ported a two-year-old FPS from the arcades called Outtrigger (2001). It was a class-based shooter and could go online for games up to six players. There was really nothing special about it, especially when set next to other DC titles like Unreal Tournament and Quake III.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield

Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield (2006) is well known in Japanese arcades for having each player sit in his or her own life-sized Gundam cockpit to play. More than that, it actually plays pretty well. Even now, six years after its release, it is still found in most Japanese arcades, and teams of six regularly compete with each other across the country.

Metal Gear Arcade

Metal Gear Arcade (2010) is exactly what it sounds like. While it uses Metal Gear Online as a base, it plays quite differently with a lightgun, tilt censor headset, and 3D goggles. There are also many additional game modes besides the standard online battles. And since the MGO engine has been retooled to only allow a first-person perspective, Metal Gear Arcade gets its own place on this list.

When the Tekken film was released, it was so bad that Tekken's video game producer Katsuhiro Harada publically distanced himself from the project. He might have to do that again.

For reasons unbeknownst to man, Hollywood is keen to make another Tekken flick. Crystal Sky, one of the production companies on the first film, is planning a prequel that's "part of a franchise of movies".

No details are yet known other than the prequel's title, Tekken: Rise of the Tournament, which makes it sound like the film will follow the creation of the Iron Fist Tournament.

The first Tekken film got its premier in Singapore. The movie was so bad that its release was straight-to-DVD in the U.S. Tekken game producer Harada called the movie "terrible". Yep! That sounds about right.

Cannes 2012: Crystal Sky Slate Includes Holiday Comedy, 'Tekken 4' and 'Dracula' (Exclusive) [Hollywood Reporter via JEFusion]

One Piece is a very popular manga and anime about pirates. Takuyuki Machida, 47, and his wife were apparently pirates. How fitting.

From July 2011 and March 2012, the two supposedly sold 38 pirated DVDs that were procured from a South Korean website. The DVDs were then resold online.

According to authorities, the couple made the equivalent of US$200,000 in pirated sales since 2006. Sounds like they were The King of the Pirates...pirates.

ワンピース"海賊被害"　複製ＤＶＤ販売容疑で逮捕 [産経 via ANN]

On May 25, Japanese role-playing game Persona is getting a porno parody called Perofella. The suspense must be killing you.

Japanese website Asagawo Blog watched a screener and posted a handful of screen caps on its site. Since, well, Perofella is a dirty movie, many of the screen caps are dirty. Screw dirty! Let's look at some of the totally safe for work pictures.

The NSFW (albeit censored) images can be viewed on Asagawo Blog's site in the link below, if that's your bag.

アサガヲBlog [Asagawo]

One of Japan's best known creators and comedians, Beat Takeshi, is catching heat for remarks he made about gay marriage.

When shown footage of people celebrating President Obama's recent gay marriage remarks, Takeshi quipped, "Obama supports gay marriage. You would support a marriage to an animal eventually, then." Um...

Takeshi is, first and foremost, a comedian, and this might have been a very poor attempt at humor—though, it's certainly not clear this was a joke. I don't think it was. Sure, he's not breaking any law, and he's clearly giving his off hand opinion, which he's entitled to. Some in Japan, however, found his remarks rather disappointing.

All this comes as Tokyo Disneyland finally began allowing same-sex marriage ceremonies at Disney hotels (before this, the park asked one member of a lesbian couple to dress like a groom in case other park visitors saw). While Japanese television is dotted with openly gay and transgender celebrities, the country itself remains somewhat conservative regarding gay rights. What's more, same-sex marriage is not legal in Japan, and the government does not recognize the Disney ceremonies.

"It is disappointing that such an influential figure made that kind of negative comment," Taiga Ishikawa, a gay activist and Tokyo assembly member, told AFP.

"As a movie director, he must be a person with a great sense of imagination. I wish he had been able to put himself in the position of gay and lesbian people in society."

I don't see Takeshi's remarks having much of an impact with the Japanese public, though. In Japan, things like getting caught with drugs can end one's career. Shooting one's mouth off generally does not. Heck, one former entertainer (and former Dimps board member), Shinsuke Shimada, only got a slap on the wrist after he beat up a female staffer. Later, he only had to leave the Japanese entertainment industry after admitting his yakuza ties.

What's more, insensitive comments are often par for the course on Japanese television—whether that's insulting other people or drawing pictures of "Uncle Hitler". There have been a few celebs reprimanded (like Kumi Koda's "rotten womb" remarks), but the Japanese public generally does not take what entertainers say seriously—unlike many Western countries. This could also be because many Japanese celebrities just don't comment much on social issues. They are often a blank slate.

Takeshi's fame is slightly different. In Japan, he's known for his outrageous humor as well as his biting social commentary. In the West (especially Europe), he's known as a serious filmmaker. Closed-minded comments like this might not go over with arty farty movie people. Then again, maybe they'll continue to judge him on the quality of his work, regardless of his position on social issues.

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In updating the console versions of Street Fighter X Tekken to fix a few bugs, Capcom has accidentally introduced a new one, which completely breaks the game. Whoops.

Anyone updating to 1.04 and using Rolento's knife to attack a projectile will find that the results are not exactly desirable, in that it locks the game up, requiring a restart.

Bookies are now taking bets on what breaks when Capcom tries to fix this one. And by bookies, I mean me.

KhaosGaming [YouTube, vis SRK]

We feature a lot of LEGO here on Kotaku, for good reason: it's awesome. But the spaceships or Star Wars dioramas we show you are rarely made by kids, or Danish engineers. They're usually made by grown men.

Why would they devote so much time and energy to expressing themselves using what for many is still considered a childhood toy? This great PBS short, called LEGO Art, sticks a camera in the face of LEGO builders like Alex Kobbs (featured a few times on Kotaku) and lets them explain.

Lego Art | Off Book | PBS [YouTube]

It's been announced overnight that Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, the upcoming platformer once bound solely for the PS3, is now headed to the Vita as well. More of this please, Sony! [PlayStation]

There's a simple rule publishers need to adhere to when it comes to live action marketing: either do it right, or don't do it at all. Skimp on the quality, even just a little, and what you end up with will probably be a bit shit.

Ubisoft know the rule pretty well. Konami? Konami don't.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is out later this year on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.