I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Speaking of translation, the first two Japanese games translated into French -Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya for the NES- were translated by Yuji Shibata, then product manager at Bandai France (Nintendo's official distributor until the early 1990s), simply because he was learning French at the time.

Bonsoir ! Ce n'est pas le genre de nouvelle que l'on aurait aimé vous donner. Mais devant l'impasse économique actuelle, JV doit se mettre en pause pour une durée indéterminée, tout du moins dans sa version mensuelle. Toutes les informations sont disponibles ci-dessous (petit thread) 🔽

I've finally found some information about Kei Furutsuki / ふるつき景, illustrator who worked on several Compile games in the late 80s. The bad news is that he died of liver cancer on 3 December 2010.
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