Are American games ever popular in Japan?

[Para]

GTA 4 sucks though, so what do they know?

[the7k]

I remember hearing about large amounts of Japanese gamers importing Jak & Daxter during the PS2 era, as well as GTA3.

[Bradtemple87]

I'm not sure besides some of the dungeon crawlers for Japan, but Korea sure loved a little game called Starcraft!