Way to go and pretend you didn't understand the point.
d3t pitched the project to SEGA and SEGA accepted it. However, by "SEGA". people mean many things. What really happened was that SEGA UK got into talks with d3t - also a British company. The talks were initiated by d3t because they wanted to make a Shenmue remake. SEGA UK accepted their proposal and asked SEGA Japan for the Shenmue archives, which they were given. Since it was a UK project, however, SEGA Japan simply passed the archives. It wasn't their project. Of course they wouldn't be flying over to the UK just to check on their British branch. Obviously, SEGA Japan didn't even know who d3t is. It was all done in good faith. They assumed it must be a good enough developer if the UK branch hired them. They were wrong, which was uncovered when it was already too late for the Western release. SEGA Japan could only push back their own release, which they did. Kasahara also started to talk with d3t about the patches and they obviously must have been very difficulty to work with if Kasahara bashed them publicly.
Stop pretending you don't understand that the various branches at SEGA operate as separate companies. They work on their own. Nobody in Japan is going to babysit a different branch.
BTW, I hate your tone when you say that Kasahara was "bullshitting" people in a public interview. No, he wasn't. Have some respect for the man who co-created Shenmue. If he said d3t didn't want to fix the ports and he had to fight with them over it, I believe him. He would never say something like that if it wasn't the sad truth.
