I don't think they retyped anything. The front is from the Japanese version and back is from the Great Britain version of the cover. It was slightly changed so it would fit the NTSC-U (American) PS2 style.
PlayStation 3Yakuza 3 (NTSC/UC) (Retail)http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19796803&postcount=1181Someone at NeoGaf already did a really great startup, but we didn't know what the back of the box looked like at the time.