There is is a group of the JP Community that complains about EU/NA ppl beeing able to play on same server since the US release of FFXI. But this is a quite small group and is by far not the majority. Everyone who spent time in an JP ls or has some friends know that they actually enjoy to play with ppl from other countries its just abit harder to get started.

They complain and talk about same stuff like we do, even if they have another language and another culture they are not that different.