So, while playing this game, and now dating (and engaged!) to a woman who is more familiar with JP culture, I've come up with a few things that I simply don't get:
1) It's common to say "Moshi-Moshi" (もしもし) on the phone to say hello, etc. However, this actually means "bug bug" ... the heck? You only use this on the phone, not in person.
2) Japanese language, and kanji, of course have been around far longer than English. However, they nearly always use the roman numbers (1,2,3...) instead of what they have. Why??
3) Similar to #2, why do they frequently use english words for which there are readily available JP ones? A good example is to watch Ninja Warrior (on Comcast on-demand if you have it, it's called Sasuke in JP. They have the "Spider jump" which is called as such, and clearly there is a JP word for spider. This is quite common, where english words are used despite no non-JP speakers expected to be present.