Without setting out to do so, I've managed to fill my music room (not talented enough to call it a studio) exclusively with Japanese gear. I don't know if it's the cost, the genre associations, or if the stuff is just plain better, but I'm infinitely more interested in Korg/Roland than the likes of Moog, Sequential, EMS, etc.<p>I credit Korg in particular with making analog accessible again. I wouldn't trade my MS-20 mini for anything.