Yes there are japanese players, I see them regularly on Phantasy Star Universe and Beautiful Katamari. Even the Beautiful Katamari global leaderboard shows japanese players there.

And yes their xbox marketplace is pretty sad as their movie section is basically documentaries on American stuff.. :o

Their Inside XBox newsletter thing is pretty good with regular previews and news from XBox 360 Famitsu staff

as well as interviews with japanese developers like this main namco guy who did the ToV

plus info and video of japanese press conferences like Capcom talking about their current games line








