Yes, they can build some really ugly websites, but some very elegant ones as well. It's puzzling. My theory is that Japanese (and Chinese) readers process a we

Yes, they can build some really ugly websites, but some very elegant ones as well. It's puzzling. My theory is that Japanese (and Chinese) readers process a web site differently from readers of word-based languages, such as English. Japanese readers do a lot more 'scanning' than we do. It would be interesting to see a usability study of one of those Japanese sites that records how the user actually processes the page.