Like a Dragon Gaiden will launch with only the Japanese voice at first

The Like a Dragon games or Yakuza series had a long history of being mainly in Japanese regarding the voicework, with the exception of the very first games and the more recent ones.

The original games had a Western localization that included English voices. However, the job was not highly praised, at least it was bad enough that for the subsequent games, they chose only to translate them and keep the Japanese voices, which made for an excellent decision, as it kept the feeling of playing a Japanese game with lots of references to Japanese culture.

More recently, with Yakuza 7 and the Judgement games, they chose to try again and add an English dub to the games. This time, it resulted in better performances, even adding some unique moments like the part where Ichiban couldn't understand a character that was actually speaking in English; instead of changing the language to keep the same idea of talking to a foreigner that you couldn't understand, in the English version, they added a shot of Ichiban looking at the camera like he was acknowledging the absurdity of the situation.

It's safe to assume that they've decided to continue dubbing their games, so it comes as a bit of a surprise that Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name won't come with an English dub, at least at launch, as Kiryu's EN voice actor reminded his followers.

He also reminded fans that, while he wasn't sure what he could and couldn't reveal, he assures that at least Infinite Wealth's Steam page says it includes English voices, so one would expect at least that game to have English dubbing at launch.