Wonder Why No Japanese Retippers?

It is considered sacrilegious to revive the dead in Japan - the retippers would have to perform harikari - hence no retippers in Japan.  Arigatou!

are you fluent in japanese, @neonknight ? or do you live in japan? how did you come to conclusion?

@cey Neither to both, although my adopted mother is Japanese and I have been to Tokyo twice. There are plenty of sellers of vintage cartridges on Ebay, and one thing I notice is that none of the cartridges are advertised as retipped, but there are ones sold for parts or needing new diamond. Also the analog community is fairly tight, and we hear about places like Fonolab that is a resource for vintage Japanese tonearms service and parts. But nothing for cartridges. Audio boards like Audiogon, Audio Asylum, Audiokarma and what not have members all over the world and have not reported on one that I have seen. I imagine the Japanese have their own audio boards, and I suppose Google translate will let you read a lot of what is written, it's a matter of finding the sites. But that is the reason for the post...are there Japanese retip services, as I have never run across any info indicating there is.

so youre not plugged in to or immersed in any japanese audiophile communities, @neonknight? are you connected to any japanese audiophiles enough to have any idea if there are japanese retippers out there among japanese audiophiles?

if u have a koetsu, they retip and rebuild your cart. 

I’m quite confident that there are retippers in japan who don’t speak English and do not want to be bothered with attracting non-Japanese speaking clientele. We travel to Tokyo every year to visit our son. We’re going again in late May. I’ll ask.