Why's there so much english in Japanese games?
I only really noticed it when I played the Theatrhythm Final Fantasy demo on my friend's Japanese 3DS. The main menu was in Japanese as expected, but during battle the hit ratings ("bad" "great" "critical" etc.) were all in plain english and most of the results screen was in english too.
Thinking back to some other japanese games I've played I realized it happens a lot, in Koshien 98, LSD and Pepsiman for example the titles and menu screen were all english with just a few japanese sentences here and there. Surely it doesn't make any sense to do this? Is english just really common in japan or what?