Originally Posted by
Taon
Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Sony, Panasonic, Nikon, Nintendo, Fujifilm, Canon, Sanyo, JVC, Mazda, Casio, Bridgestone, Toshiba, Sega, Konami (and a lot more well-known Japanese companies whose products are translated and sold the world over) would like to respectfully disagree with you.
I can see an argument for companies not willing to invest in foreign markets until they feel their product is ready for international consumption, but that's just common sense and not particularly intrinsic of the Japanese.