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Legend
Let me just add, D&D has never been THE dominant RPG in Japan, not even in its Red Box heyday. But it could have been. Despite not even really trying to get into the Japanese market, TSR had the perfect opportunity fall into their lap when the Lodoss War replays were first serialized and blew up in popularity. A group of RPG enthusiasts had done all the work for them. But TSR (and their Japanese publisher/distributor Shinwa) decided to play hardball with Kadokawa Shoten, and poisoned the well. Then those same RPG enthusiasts went ahead and took hold of the market themselves. TSR should have stood for They Shoot-themselves-in-the-foot Regularly.