The most disturbing thing that I experienced in the last Tokyo Game Show was witnessing the presentation of the MHO set in Pearl Harbor. There you had crowds of happy Japanese delighted at a game aiming, at, ehem, themselves. 2 years before, on my first trip to Tokyo, I witnessed two other troubling things: the Japanese GC launch and the premiere of the Pearl Harbor film. Surely, we humans are strange little beast and it is a fun thing to try to figure us out. Clive Thompson has an excellent piece at Slate asking why the MHO game is doing so well in Japan.