Mike H. Says: It's not a simple matter of someone reading Japanese text and just retyping it into English/Spanish/etc. There are technical issues that can fall into play... one of my favorite stories about this is (believe it or not) from a former Square programmer. They misspelled words and made grammatical mistakes in some games in order to get the English text to correctly fit on the screen in the space allowed. To make the text and grammar fit properly would have involved serious code rewriting and subsequent beta testing that they simply didn't have the time to do. So they had to compromise and get creative. However, some developers will go through the task of re-coding and testing if feasible.