This is a potentially stupid question, but did you try it anyway? If it's plug and play, the joystick shouldn't be smart enough to know the difference. If driver installation is required dig up one of those FAQs for playing Japanese dating sim games on an English Windows PC. It will take you through changing all of the settings in Windows to make Japanese programs think they are being run under Japanese Windows. The main difference between Windows in the US, Japan, China, Korea, etc. is the language selected by default.