SE did an interview with the Japanese mag/site Gamewatch. You can find the complete translated interview here:

http://aselin.octoberasian.com/ffxi_gamewatch_interview.html

Found it in a BG discussion thread:

http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60552

Lots of interesting info about the dynamics of Campaign and how all that shit actually works.

Also it's pretty depressing to compare an interview like this to the interviews SE gives to the NA audience. Either it's a translation thing or they are racist fucks who like the JP players better, so they give them the cool stuff. Yeah I'm gonna go with racist fucks.