Because it is a large country (Population = 124M) and it had already in the past a Lisp community. Many years ago at an event I met people from a commercial Li

Because it is a large country (Population = 124M) and it had already in the past a Lisp community. Many years ago at an event I met people from a commercial Lisp vendor in California. They had also business cards in Japanese, because a bunch of customers came from there.