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Because it gets you in hot water in China and South Korea, both markets that Japanese publishers have been doggedly pursuing for the last 7-8 years. It's the same reason why the SMT3 remaster was handled in such a weird way. That said, it's not even an entirely new thing or even just a case of changing things due to the fucked up stuff that Hirohito-era Japan did, they've made concessions like this before - remember that there was a William Adams expy named Arthur in the Korean version of Soul Calibur that replaced Mitsurugi.