Japan

The Flag of Japan

Flag of Japan (with border)

Real world

Japan is a country in Eastern Asia. The country uses the CERO rating system to rate all Grand Theft Auto releases, with so far all of the series being rated Z (18+). Japan received Grand Theft Auto releases at a much later time, as it has taken a long time for Rockstar Games to localize them, which is done by Rockstar Japan. The GTA games are published in Japan mainly by Capcom which had released the following games:

• Grand Theft Auto III (September 25, 2003)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (May 20, 2004)
• Grand Theft Auto Double Pack (July 29, 2004 Xbox version, February 27, 2007 PS2 version)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (January 25, 2007)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (July 26, 2007 PSP version, September 6, 2007 PS2 version)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (December 6, 2007)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (October 10, 2008)

CyberFront has released recent GTA games:

• Grand Theft Auto IV (March 20, 2009)
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (September 24, 2009)

Game world

• A contact of Jim Fitzgerald and Angus Martin buys stolen Angel bikes off of them, and then ships them to Japan.
• The Yakuza in all the Grand Theft Auto games originate from Japan.
• The flag of Japan can be seen in the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V (0:16).

Japanese characters

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