Gandos: Considering Castlevania and Contra are considered to be among the hardest games on the NES, I find this statement more than a little ironic.

SCPM: I think the biggest part is a lack of communication and understanding between what western PC gamers want and what Japanese developers/publishers want. There are western branches of these companies, and what we can do is continue to write e-mails to them, tweet to them, post on their Facebook, and on their forums, that we want GOG releases of their games. I continue to do so, and I strongly recommend everyone else do so as well. Their responses come across as open to the idea, but hesitant. I'm hoping more people making such requests will move them to action.
Capcom Unity:
http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_capcom/go/forum/view/7371/233087/ask-capcom
Konami:
https://www.konamigaming.com/corporate/Home/Contact.aspx
https://twitter.com/konamieu
SEGA forums:
http://forums.sega.com/index.php
SNK Playmore
http://www.snkplaymore.co.jp/us/company/
https://twitter.com/SNKPofficial/
https://www.facebook.com/METALSLUGWORLD

Edit: And it's likely XSEED will bring the Ys games to GOG:
https://www.facebook.com/XSEEDYsSeries/posts/637776592923158?comment_id=6585571&offset=0&total_comments=3

Chacranajxy: GOG's made some pretty big strides in their offerings as of late, and for the most part, the library is filling out nicely. The one place where the store is sorely lacking right now, though, is in its selection of Japanese games.

Right now, GOG has a few. There's Deadly Premonition, La Mulana, Guilty Gear XX #Reload, and Street Fighter Alpha 2. GGXX#R is a woefully outdated version of that game and SFA2 is a bad port, so they're barely worth mentioning. Maybe there are a few others I forgot, but the lineup is, quite frankly, pathetic.

Where's Capcom, beyond that shoddy SFA2 port? Where's Devil May Cry 4, Resident Evil 5, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Dead Rising 2, and the upcoming Strider?

Where's Sega? Sonic Generations, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Jet Set Radio HD, and Binary Domain would be fantastic to have DRM-free... not to mention all the strategy games currently under Sega's banner, like Company of Heroes and the Total War series.

Where's Konami? I would kill for a DRM-free copy of Metal Gear Rising, and I'm sure some poor soul might want to slog through Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

And what about all the more niche titles, like the Falcom games published by XSEED (Ys, Trails in the Sky), the just-announced Killer is Dead port, or the soon-to-be-released PC port of Treasure's Ikaruga?

These games would lend a heaping of variety to GOG's lineup. The character action and JRPG genres are non-existent (Silver, Anachronox, Septerra Core really don't scratch that itch), and even some of the over-represented genres on GOG, like platformers, would benefit from a bit of Japanese panache. That, and most of these games are ideal fodder for those who have their gaming PC hooked up to their TV for "comfy couch" gaming. There simply aren't enough of those in the store right now. Japanese publishers are really starting to double down on PC releases for both their new games and re-releases of older titles, and getting them on-board could only be a good thing for GOG going forward.

I realize it's easy for some to dismiss this as "GOG losing their focus on old games," but the simple fact of the matter is that the site is diversifying its offerings. Getting Japanese publishers on-board could bring some old games onto the service (namely, some of Sega, Falcom, and Capcom's back catalogs), but it'd bring a lot of modern classics into the fold, as well. For fans of those genres that Japan specializes in, DRM-free releases would be a massive boon for the store.

So, why do we see so few Japanese games on GOG? Is it a lack of interest on GOG's part? Is it the language barrier (which Treasure previously cited as a difficulty when working with Valve to get Ikaruga on Steam)? Is it a hesitance on the publishers' part to put out DRM-free versions of their games? And, more importantly, what can we do about it?

Chacranajxy: Snip

Chacranajxy: I'm also curious if Steins;Gate will see a GOG release, seeing as how that's a huge deal for JastUSA. The retail release is DRM-free, so it's hardly necessary, but again, it couldn't hurt.

Elmofongo: I like to see Square release Final Fantasy 1,4, and 6 with those improved 2D graphics on PC and Final Fantasy Tactics.

Elmofongo: I like to see Square release Final Fantasy 1,4, and 6 with those improved 2D graphics on PC and Final Fantasy Tactics.

Darvond: Culture barrier. They think in ways that often seem alien to us.

As a bad example, I point no further than Nintendo's alien approach to everything.

Darvond: When you say 'improved' do you mean the crap they offered from the GBA era, the crap they used for the iOS, or do you mean actually improved?

Wishbone: Nintendo does indeed seem to be run by insane people.

"Nobody is buying our overpriced gimmick-laden handheld because they don't want to pay extra for a shitty 3D feature that everybody turns off after 5 minutes anyway and then never use it again. How do we solve this problem? I know, we'll make a cheaper version without the shitty 3D gimmick. So far so good, anything else? Oh yeah, let's make it huge, and make sure that unlike all its predecessors it doesn't fold in half, defeating the entire purpose of having a handheld in the first place. That'll make them want to buy it."

Chacranajxy: I'm guessing he's referring to the PSP ports of FF 1, 2, and 4; which one could reasonably call improvements over the original releases.

reaver894: I dont know many people interested in playing a tentacle monster raping teenage girls

tinyE: A little side note to the OP and maybe I'm showing my age, but Konami has always put out top quality games. :D When I was a kid I didn't care what the game was, if the NES cartridge said 'Konami' on it then I BOUGHT IT!!!! Contra and Jackal remain timeless.

Some will say Capcom did alright but I always hated their NES games; they were too damn hard.

Chacranajxy: And what about all the more niche titles, like the Falcom games published by XSEED (Ys, Trails in the Sky)