I never saw a copy of English Kizuna Encounter (KE) or Ultimate 11 (U11) with a Japanese sticker on it. All the Japanese version of these games do not show any kind of wearing. I don’t think you have this for these two games.
There is no evidence, no testimony and no information regarding the recall of them. For a company it’s costly and not interesting for few copies. Just rumors, bullish ,and talks. We were in 1996 and the information era wasn’t the same like today.
These English version were released “on demand”, technically not supposed to be on the market. Just here to perform the supply for customers. Let’s say a retailer want x6 pack of JAP KE and x6 pack of JAP U11 (with accessory x6 pack Sapporo
). He can also ask to send 1 English copy of each in a “we shall see if there is any demand. Roll out the dice man !”
I also have a friend who was a video game retailer in the 90s and explained to me this kind of business practice was pretty common for many games when a new system landed in the market. “Here comes a new challenger”, let’s make some place like an outsider, the rest later.
When you run a store, you have to think about three metrics:
1/ Sales per square foot (local store) or per linear foot of shelf space (Walmart).
2/ Sales by category (Neo Geo, PlayStation, Nintendo...)
3/ Inventory turnover. Unsold games is very costly for a retailer.
Therefore, to have one english copy of each game is not the right decision in term of rentability.