This release is made in Japan, by a Japanese label, for the Japanese audience only, there’s never been any other release of this album. But all performers are from Europe (Italy, mostly). The tracklist, as you can see on this image, is completely in English:
I would probably follow Style/Language/English when entering this, i.e. I would interpret the all-caps writing as a graphic designer’s choice and enter the track titles and artist names using normal English title case.
Style/Language/Japanese provides guidance for “names and titles originating in Japan”. If this is a compilation of songs by non-Japanese performers, then I don’t view the titles as having originated in Japan.
But to be completely honest, the Japanese guidelines still don’t make much sense to me. If someone seems to be trying to write “normal” titles in a given language, I think it’d make more sense to follow that language’s guidelines instead of carving out a single exception based on where the artist/release/whatever “is from”, whatever that means. I wish the Japanese guidelines took artist intent into account and only applied to e.g. titles incorporating both Latin and Japanese scripts.
This is not possible because see 浜崎あゆみ works where the only non-Latin titles are from rare covers. Except that, all titles are full Latin with very specific (and consistent across recordings) capitalisations.
Well not for DISC 3 at least, where keeping capitalisation should absolutely follow what’s printed.
Woops. No I wouldn’t remove anything because the Japanese language guidelines and pseudo-releases are well outside my comfort zone. Best to follow @jesus2099 in these matters, as he appears to be the more experienced editor in these matters.
That being said, the release in the OP looks like an edge case to me, since as you noted the track list is completely in Latin script / English language and the tracks are all by non-Japanese performers. I think it is up to you to decide how to handle this.
Yes but who usually don’t release much outside Japan.
And these are not really compilations, usually.
They are techno/eurodance/etc. Various artist albums, initiated by avex trax Japanese label.
But I don’t feel really against using English case.
Just that if it’s already in full caps by another editor, I won’t challenge that.
It’s an edge case, indeed.
