I have a Japanese Nintendo account and NSO membership along with payment method linked with it & play most of my games in Japanese, an individual can use forwarding agents to get it shipped outside Japan (at the expense on additional tariffs besides shipping costs).

It’s actually by column rather than row in both images. Like this:

Kanji abolition has been attempted once, but lead towards failure since the consensus is that it should remain due to that being around for more than a millennia & ingrained in Japanese culture.