As time went on it was getting harder and harder to get a green light for a new Enemy Within adventure, let alone opening up a whole new region. It languished in a “to be developed” pile for a long time, but nothing happened with it. It was more like an adaptation of FGU’s Bushido to use WFRP1 rules. I was one of the people who looked over the original 'manuscripts' when they turned it in, and everyone agreed it didn’t nail the WFRP tone. Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson, authors of the “Way of the Tiger” gamebooks, were commissioned to create a Nippon supplement for WFRP1.
What Mark found is the mortal remains of the Tetsubo project. hobgoblins battle box (working title: Bakemono’s Revenge) but the battle boxes were dropped after McDeath. There was the short-lived Oriental Heroes range, and the Perrys did a few ninja minis, but almost nothing in the way of text. They stuck a toe in the water – after Kagemusha, the Shogun miniseries and the 80s fashion for Japanese characters on T-shirts, there was a lot of interest in feudal Japan among 80s geeks. 'The East was never officially opened up by GW.
According to Graeme Davis, one of original creators of Warhammer:
