Someone in a forum posted this link:
http://mystara.thorf.co.uk/jrc.php Isn't that cool? It certainly explains Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, the D&D arcade games and lots of other Japanese D&D-inspired stuff. I had a feeling for the longest time that there must be some connecting thread for D&D in Japan, given how unified the look is, and there it is. Pretty neat!