Here are some Shadowrun product in Japan. They are different from JIS-Project.
I'll introduce them as fairly as I can.
Translation of Shadowrun 2nd.
"Plus CA Chance" is exchanded to 1st's "Night of the Town".
Rough discription about Jappan is added. (Seatle remains. )
(Only one translation of FASA product.)
Scenario. Japan original.
Review. Under construction.
Sourcebook about Tokyo. Japan original.
Review. [Genichi Nishio / netnews rec.games.frp.cyber 1996 Dec.].
How to play Shadowrun. (How to use dice, how to use rules...)
Review.( "PANIC"'s review. Coming s...someday. She is very busy.)
Novel. Heroine is one of character of "Re-play". (Adept girl 16 years old.)
Review. (my review)
"Re-play" is a edited playing scene. Juvenile reading.
("Runners" never died, always won at last, and enemies are Bad Guys. )
Review. ( "MAT.N"'s review). 1, 2, 3, 4
Short Novels. A reporter woman's adventure in Tokyo.
(I feel this concept itself is very good.)
Review. Under construction.
Fujimi-Shobo:
Metahumans can be Japanease citizen. Some bias exists but they can success any fields.
(Perhaps same as UCAS. )
JIS-Project:
Metahuman can't be Japanease citizen. Metahumans born in Japan has no citizenship. They are treated as if they are vermin.
Fujimi-Shobo:
Japanease "Imperial" State does not exist. The "Empire" is nickname of Japanease economical power. (They say so. )
Japanease goverment has no power and devided by Megacorps. (Megacorps had made civil war. But that marked only abandoned area. )
JIS-Project:
Japanease Imperial State exists. The Empire is very strong and aggressive. Megacorps keep profitable relation with JIS.
Fujimi-Shobo:
Japanease force at CFS is not Japanease Marine. They are allied force of megacorpo.
JIS-Project:
See Calfornia Free States (FASA).
Fujimi-Shobo:
It seems there are Japanease human and metahuman only.
JIS-Project:
Too many displaced people from Asia turned serious social problem. Asian gangs brings Japanease Underworld complex situations.
Fujimi-Shobo:
Terrible racists are only bad guys like humanis policlub.
JIS-Project:
JIS society itself has racism system. People brought up in JIS society become less or terrible racist. Lesser racists are such people whose nature is not racist but behaves as racist because of fear of social ostracism.
Well,what do you feel?
At first (1996 summer,before Tokyo Sourcebook published.) , I thought some interface to Fujimi-Shobo's products. (They are limited in Tokyo, then easy to connect. ) But I gave up this idea when I read some of those product.
My impression:
Fujimi-Shobo intends to sell its RPG products (Shadowrun included) to adolescent generation .
This generation in Japan is more childish than same generation in USA, at least publishers feel so. Most of novels for this generation are variations of Never-Never Land fantasy. The "Re-plays" are also juvenile reading.
I don't think Fujimi-Shobo's attitude is bad. But it does not fit Shadowrun.