Originally posted by Clavius Because China is a bigger, rising market, and thus a more interesting market that is also both culturally and geologically closer to Japan. And because Japan tends to distrust the Chinese, but not as much as they distrust non-Asians.
At least, that is what a Japanese collegue of mine once told me, when I still worked for a big Japanese company.
So inadvertently, and indirectly, we are talking about racism now, that is possibly evident even in the Pentax Ricoh business model?
If Japanese distrust Chinese but less than what they distrust Anericans and non-Asians ... I don't know, I still can't believe today's camera and imaging businesses operate at that level.
However, the question I asked above was simply about communication with users; to me, the Chinese market director delivered clearer message even when translated through the Google translator than what Jim Malcolm delivered directly in English, ever.