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Also, how did I just know you would try to use the translation cope with that interview? The interview was conducted by a Brit from an English speaking podcast whose wife also helped with translating it according to a comment on the page: https://caneandrinse.com/keiichiro-toyama/

And here's another interview he did 4 years earlier when Siren Blood Curse was releasing that was conducted by an actual Japanese person who worked alongside Toyama on the game, and who probably translated everything into English himself: https://blog.playstation.com/2008/06/13/developer-qa-siren-blood-curse/

According to this post the interviewer for that one has worked inside Sony Japan Studio but was/is an International Producer with Sony Santa Monica in America, so he knows both Japanese and English: https://blog.playstation.com/2008/07/11/inside-the-developers-studio-tsubasa-inaba/