I'm under the impression that Japanese people strongly dislike inconveniences, and therefore would like to have JP only servers. I find it hard to relate to this as I'm a European living in a country heavily promoting ethnic diversity (For the better or worse, but that's besides the point). But I fail to see how some of you Americans wag your fingers at the Japanese playerbase for being "xenophobic" when you scream your mouths off in APB:R (Just to pick an example of another multi-regional "MMO") when someone speaks something other than English.

In Japan they don't need any other language than Japanese to get by in life, much like you'll never need any other language than English. Due to their current cultural isolation I will not judge them for not wanting to speak or learn English. They simply have no reason to. It's a shame, but that's the way it is.

And thus, they don't want to deal with the language barrier since they are very much unable to do so. You could argue that they should make use of the auto translator which was created for this very purpose, but that thing, however neat it is, is a very ineffective way of communicating.

Have you ever been affected by the language barrier? Sometimes it can take such a great toll on you it's almost to the point where it's physically exhausting, not to mention mentally.

I've only met one Japanese individual who was willingly speaking English before Japanese, and that was only because she wanted to improve outside of the game as well. For this very purpose she even joined an American LS. But like I said, she only inconvenienced herself for educational purposes. If that wasn't the case she'd probably have conformed to Japanese speaking communities only. Just because she could.