Thread:222.127.85.76/@comment-1824272-20131221022001/@comment-4503347-20140110035535

Protostealth wrote: It could be polishing, it could be China and the Senkakus, it could be anything. But until Kazutoki Kono or ProAces speak on the matter, we'll refer to "unknown reasons".

It's not the Senkaku issue that roused the Japanese community, but rather the naming of "Sea of Japan". The first cutscene labelled it "East Sea", which is the name used by Korea, while it's called "Sea of Japan" in Japan. Given that the two nations are not at good terms with each other due to various reasons, a lot of Japanese netizens called Project Aces "traitorous" together with other adjectives on this.

Project Aces of course won't comment on this, so we can only speculate on the possible reasons behind the CG changes.