Yes, It's playable without understand japanese, but as I said in the main post the game is not playable in any emulator due to emulators issues (when the player put the piece it freezes in all of them: pcsx, ssspsx, xebra, epsxe, psx v.1.13, etc) ...
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For screenshots here:
http://psxdata.snesorama.us/games/J/G/SLPS-02425.html