Impact of Japanese .jp site duplicate content?

[DiamondJewelryEmpire]

Our main website is at  http://www.traxnyc.com and we just launched a Japanese version of the site at http://www.traxnyc.jp domain. However all the images used on the .jp site are linked from the .com site. Would this hurt me in Google at all for hotlinking images?

Also there is quite a bit of duplicate content on the .jp site at the moment: only a few things have been translated to Japanese and for the most part the layouts and words are exactly the same (in English). Would this hurt my Google rankings in the US at all?

Thanks for all your help.

[SanketPatel]

You will face ranking issue in your .jp domain because you have duplicate content on this site as well as you are using the image from .com version. I don't think your US site ranking get hurt from because it has unique content.