um ok? i thought that japan was a very liberal country but i guess im wrong.

crizazy. excuse my ignorance but is there a major reason for this.

Why would they do that?

Is there something wrong with blood?

psn id: gingo... that sucks for those with japanease ps3s and i dont see why they should censor blood every1's got it so why do people get so paranoid about it for

seems odd for a samurai culture

So..the land that spawns some of the bloodiest anime and some games I've ever got a chance tp witness (dismemberment and bodily explosions just to skim the surface) And they have the need to fo through a lot of rubbish just to censor some blood? I know it dosent really affect me or a large amount of people, but someone, PLEASE explain the logic in this?

Sucks for the awesome Japanese folks...

maybe they dont want bring some memories back

First of all, People usually do BLEED when the get injured, through fists, bullets, whatever...that's pure reality - why would you censor that. And afterall therer are much more games that contain strong violence and gore, compared to Manhunt, Uncharted is a Birthday Party :/

they need to start looking closely at anime if they are conserned about little blood

I'm with Marcelis: Why does Japan have outrageous violence in other forms of entertainment, but not in games?

Ah. No wonder they dont like FPS games. They aren't fun without blood!

I have never known this about japan. One has to wonder why.

Animes aside, look at some of the Japanese horror movies to come out in the last 10 years...some of the most grotesque stuff I've ever seen (Takishi Miike anyone?  Imprint was one of the most disgusting horror movies I've seen in a while...not that I'm complaining because I love that stuff, but this makes no sense), yet god forbid they see a little blood splatter in a Mature rated game...wow...I can't even believe I just read this.

psn id: Limanima

Poor guys

this makes no sense. dont people know that if you get shot you bleed? kinda as bad as the whole nudity censoring which is nonsense

You must also remember that they have almost ZERo crime there... Something most countries could only hope for.

just put a label on the front of the games case ...     lika a (Parrental Advisery )sign..  thats just rediculos.

To Nitzu78 And a little blood in a game would ofcourse make the crimerate skyrocket!! NOT!!!

You guys do know there is a no "fire arm" law in place in Japan? That could be the reason why they follow this rule with games. Not sure why anime gets a freeby though. >_>

blood? and its only rated teen wtf

Wow.... just wow.

That's retarded.

from the land that made the film Battle Royal and suicide circle the bloodest films ever made, they are gonna censored the blood in games... weird...

PSN ID: ZeRoAciDKooL

hmmm...well with games like resident evil (Bio Hazard to them) coming from japan, this makes me wonder. the conclusion i came up with is that the rating system must work different. like blood is fine but not for the rating they want.like its a teen game but add blood and its equivalent to a M in the states.as japan seems less restrictive on game violence/nudity ect. they may just want to keep the rating low. just my opinion

Liberal? they censor their PORN, how liberal can they be. But they do have far more violent cartoons though. I suppose there's just a different set of rules in their culture that dont make as much sense here.

 

They're probably just trying to offer up a less violent game. While the Fist of the North Star movie was famous for it's gorey deaths the television version replaced the red blood with a white splash. So it's okay to show an exploding head as long as there's no blood and okay to have a 12 men on one girl bukake scene as long as you censor their groins

Lame.. no blood? Err.

It shouldn't matter about the rating system, I have a Japanese PS3 because I live and work here, but frequently import games. If I import a game that has been appropriately rated in it's country of origin, I expect to play that game in it's original form, not a handicapped version because the domestic release has a different rating. It would be like importing a porn DVD from the US only to have my DVD player blur out the good stuff, it's totally crap.

I hope I'm not seeing a return back to region locking

They did something similar with RE:4, which is strange because hey developed RE:4 themselves.  They censored Leon's death sequences.

I guess they just look down upon realistic depictions of death and mutilation, but accept animated depictions.

Yeah.. i'm disappointed... as i just ordered a White Japanese PS3 yesterday and read the news today.... :-S

Will Soldier of Fortune be banned in Japan? Or will they just censor the blood? If it is the latter, then I guess you could still decapitate soldier's limbs without seeing any blood!?! Cool, sort of!?!

Why not just change the color of the blood instead? Like, games such the Silent Hill series!

well, just glad that i didn't buy a jap ps3, coz i love blood every where!!!

I thought japanese really liked their blood and gore,with all the gory animes they have,i don't understand why they would treat games differently.