MSX communities in Japan

If they don't have a place where they can share their thoughts in their (your, for the ones on this thread!) own language, why not adding a section for the japanese community here? It could be the same as with the spanish people, not all of us can speak english.

I'm relatively new to MSX, but I have seen a couple of guys very active on twitter, and they share their stuff there. But maybe having a space here could help.

Just a wild guess .

Edit:
So wild that was wrong. Sorry!

It's already there: https://www.msx.org/forum/multilingual-forums-0

I don't know madscient's true intent, but the answer to your question is nobody. That... he wrote "be destroyed"... was just figure of speech, very general among Japanese people.

Certainly, I remember that some people felt disgust against flips around Mr. Kazuhiko Nishi at the beginning of this century. That might accelerate degeneration of Japanese MSX community, but the result would have been the same even if they had not existed. I say again nobody killed MSX in Japan. It is still living in domestic community. However, I think nobody can force them to do something we hope, for example contribution to MRC.

I wonder some of them will come here if I seem to be in good spirits to them.

Yeah, one of the nicest things here is having people from many different countries and cultures sharing the same passion, from Vikings to Brazilians , almost always in a friendly mood. That's the main reason why I regret no having the Asian side of the world more represented here.

I think that we all dream about a huge community existing in Japan, developing and making new things for the MSX, that we would not know about (like a lost paradise or something). It's quite easy to imagine that due to the success of the MSX over there, there would be an enormous fan base still active. Just like what's happening in Europe and USA for the C64 or other hugely successful 8-bit computers.

I think we simply don't understand why it would NOT exist !

And yet, I have never see any japanese reactions to a development from this side of the world. I mean, a pixel-scroll version of Nemesis ? with speech added by SCC sampling ? You would think that the japanese MSX fans would go wild about it (except if they already done it). Or at least that we would get some feedback from them ! ... But no. Only silence. For years.

So there's only two explanations :

1. Either there is NO MSX scene in Japan, for some reason we do not understand (cultural, historical, other ...)
2. Or there IS a MSX scene in Japan, but it stays closed to foreigners, for some reason we do not understand (see above).

In both cases, it's quite sad.
We're somehow orphans.

Why do you hesitate? At least I welcome these discussion. I wonder you're afraid if such a discussion incurs the displeasure of Asian people including Japanese. Don't worry. Such people with tiny hearts never come here through the wall of language. Kidding!