![]() I worked in the international business department at Konami Japan, a group of about 15 or so employees who sat uncomfortably between the sales division and the law division in neat rows in a single well-lit, bustling office room. I would later translate Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation, a job that might have been much too big for one person. That one-and-a-half-year span felt like at least five years due to the high-pressure environment of being the only foreigner in the office, and the horrible Tokyo rush-hour train commute. I first met him when I worked at Konami’s HQ in Toranomon, Tokyo, from about September 1993 to March 1995. ![]() Good for him.Īlthough it’s hard to believe now, Hideo Kojima was unknown in the West at that point in the early to mid-’90s. He looked more like Psycho Mantis at the time. He was a lot thinner then, before he started pumping iron. It was at a traditional Japanese ryokan’s rotenburo (outdoor bath), on a Konami company vacation near Mount Fuji. The last time I saw Hideo Kojima, we were both naked.
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