I've picked this up through consulting work. There are several large Japanese companies that located to this area about 30 years ago, and a few Japanese supplie

I've picked this up through consulting work. There are several large Japanese companies that located to this area about 30 years ago, and a few Japanese suppliers have sprung up around them. In dealing with them on side jobs and through friends, it's become very apparent that they are FAR less willing to spend money on IT than American companies. (One supplier, doing many millions of dollars a year in sales, is still running their company on Excel spreadsheets.) Which is a shame, because, from what I've seen, they're so far behind, they're smack-dab in the middle of the biggest-bang-for-buck area of the IT spending curve.