A few months ago I was in Japan and brought back some Japanese Shadowrun books.
These are called "replays", they are short stories based on actual gaming sessions, with explanations of specific rule points, etc. Very much like the "Enhanced Fiction" Catalyst started doing in the last couple of years (like the
Anatomy of a Shadowrun booklet found in the Runner's Toolkit for instance). It seems japanese role-players are big fans of those.
Arclight, the company that publishes SR4 in Japan, has an ongoing series of replays set in the Shadowrun universe. It tells the story of the Angels (obviously based on the TV series Charlie's Angels), a team of shadowrunners composed of Horie, a human razorgirl, Jill Rain, an ork gunslinger adept, Nanny Witee, an elf mage, and the troll technomancer Suzuki-san.
From what I gathered these stories are quite light-hearted and as can already be guessed from the covers the artwork features massive amounts of silly fan-service. There are some funny culture shocks in there too (especially the way the Japanese writer and artist depict the NAN -- so anachronistic and cliché it's hilarious).
Still, it's interesting to see the gaming/reading habits of Shadowrun fans from other cultures.
