The funny thing about this is people in Japan really are rather modest. Even though we have top programmers in our company, they really don't want us to promote them as stars. So I can't name names here, but there are people in Japan who have developed very important programs for Linux. For example, the console program that will support Japanese, Korean, and Chinese characters was developed by a Japanese individual who is very well-known in Japan. There are other Japanese developers who have done a lot toward internationalization and localization.
Font programs is another area.
Dealing with rendering and printing of fonts is something that they're very strong in. So there are very good developers in Japan that we work with, and actually some of them work at our company. I'd very much like to promote them, but unfortunately, because of their modesty, they're kind of anonymous. It's interesting to think that though many of the Linux hackers and Linux users come from all over the world, Linux seems united culturally. Germans and Dutch and American and Canadian and Mexicans will read Slashdot and are sort of unified in a culture.