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Japan is known for making a wealth of video games that are played around the world. Meanwhile, the history and culture of Japan is featured in a few games. Produced primarily by foreigners, these games often focus in on the Shogun, Samurai, Ninja aspects of Japan's history; games of armored knights and political strategy. As I have read books to explore and understand Japanese culture, I have played some games for a look at Japan as well. You could argue that the scads of video games published by Japan reveal something about the country; that is the subject for another web page. There are a large group of games centered around World War II; this list will mostly avoid those games to examine games that examine other points in Japanese history.
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| Year | Game Title | Platform | Developer/Publisher | Comments/Links |
| 1986 | Shogun | PC | Mastertronic | Shogun recreates the |
| 1986 | Budokan | PC | Electronic Arts | This compact action game recreated Japanese martial arts. Beyond simply hands and fists, this game offered combat with staves, in Japanese dojo-inspired settings. |
| Lords of the Rising Sun | Amiga | CinemaWare | Publisher Page | |
| 1988 | James Clavell's Shogun | Infocom | A text game based on the adventures of a foreigner arriving in late-Feudal Japan. | |
| 1987? | Sword of the Samurai | PC | Microprose | Sword of the Samurai offers the chance to play as an aspiring warlord in feudal Japan. Power, honor, mostly decided through small arcade games and some strategy. |
| 1989 | Nobunga's Ambition | PC | Koei | |
| 1991? | Nobunga's Ambition 2 | PC | Koei | |
| 1992 | Conquest of Japan | PC | Impressions | UnderDogs |
| 1995 | Cosmology of Kyoto | PC | SoftEdge | |
| 2000 | Shogun: Total War | PC | Electronic Arts | Strategy game |
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