Don't be so small minded. Its not an issue of being surrounded by Japanese writings/sounds, its an issue for those of us who have friends all over the world.
1) I'm not being small minded, and your words offend me.

2)It is absolutely NOT an issue for people who have friends all over the world. Tell your friends to join the same server. BAM! problem solved.

In fact, based on the live letter answers, the current servers will remain as they are, so you're not going to lose any of your friends unless they personally choose to abandon you for a better ping.

So when one of my LSs decides to go to an NA server and the other wants to go to a EU server, I just have to willingly cut the amount of friends I have in half?
This isn't well said. If they're willing to leave you, then they aren't really your friends.