Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/technology/20game.html?pagewanted=all
Interview: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/one-on-one-keiji-inafune-game-designer/
See if you can find something Inafune expresses, something that definitely influenced him to leave Capcom, that might have made Ono decide to put the **Western **box art in the game.
edit: This wasn’t meant to be a new thread, sorry.