Early Japanese RPG video games, like the fist Final Fantasy, are seemingly inspired by western tabletop RPGs, mechanically speaking. AD&D was released in 1979, and the first Final Fantasy was released in '89. What was in the intervening time like for tabletop RPGs in Japan? Was it a large scene, did they get translations of Western rulebooks? Or am I off-base in my assumptions of where they took their inspiration from?