In an "meeting" with Gamasutra last week, Greg Canessa brought new light on Microsoft's ideas around Asian specific XBLA content and how (short of creating a Japanese account) those of us in the west can play them. It seems that MS is batting around the idea of having an import section on the market place that would allow for developers who might not have the funds to do a full localization the opportunity to tap into the far larger Western market as they will be available in the west in their original language.
Another tidbit that came out was the it seems that Fatal Fury Special will be only available in the east. If this is the case I'm certainly not going to be the only one who hopes that MS adds the new section to the Marketplace.
You can check out the whole article here.
[UPDATED] To clarify that the import section will probably not have games in english.
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I'm liking his last statements. Where he goes on to say 50 games by end of year and that 80 games are in dev by indie companies. The import section would be the best thing since xbla. Now only if they would put all games in this area with all the languages they are in. That would be even cooler.
Start playing Smash TV in Japanese or German or what ever they have localization it to, for all games.