If you go to the oficial Shenmue city page there is a link to the oficial shenmue gai Twitter. Once you are there this twitter account is following to yu_suzuki_jp.
Maybe we can create an account and show some support to Yu by sending a mp or a tweet, maybe then he could launch his crappy game in occident...
I answered to a Yu´s tweet with this: I hope I could play Shenmue III before die