I found , i think a rare pic in 1996 ! It's written E3 tokyo 96 ! At this year , it's was shown Biohazard 1.5 to the public?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_E3#1996 In 1996, it was held in Los Angeles. Tokyo got the Tokyo Game Show and Nintendo Spaceworld as well as some other shows like AOU. I'm unfamiliar about the context of the sign in the picture, but it doesn't mean there was ever an E3 in Japan. E3 is hosted by an american association, so they'd hardly move the fair abroad.
I do believe there was a E3/Tokyo '96 - the exported version of the US version. I could be easily wrong. Can anyone coroborate this? Found this page which also holds the image you posted (is this where you got it from)? http://translate.google.com/transla...http://nerd.jp/events/19xx/E961103/index.html
It was probably going to be held in Tokyo in 96', but probably canceled due to moving. so they decided to keep in the usa
There's a thing about this on the Japanese Wikipedia: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Entertainment_Expo You can put in in Google Translate, but I'm sure one of the Japanese-speaking members could translate it better.
Found this article regarding Sony and Sega pulling out of E3/Tokyo'96: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/961105/rumor1.htm ...and also an animation that Mr. Yoshii did for the event: http://www.yoshii.com/gallery/movies/movies_images/yoshii_E3Tokyo.mov Hope people don't mind, but gleaned what I could from the JP Wikipedia and the PC Watch article and put it on EN Wikipedia so that hopefully we can expand out on this blip in E3's history. (EDIT: Now I've checked, I realise that these two articles are both major hits on Google, so maybe they weren't as 'hidden' as I thought.)
