Japan culture is audiophile by the way they adopted european and american music as jazz or classical but integrated it easily at great speed ...
They are audiophiles in the way that sound matter for them in the same way their traditional housing, tea ceremony, cooking, art of flower, archery martial art, religious ceremony are very oriented in a "formal" way but a very subtle and refined way but non mechanistical or logical way...The form here manifest the content, they are not separated by logic..
Then for them music and good sound goes hand in hand and are not separable completely ...They ask for good sound not only for music content ...They are more inclined to present a set of esthetical rules as also ethical rules and also to ask for ethical rule to be also esthetical rule in some way ... They do not separate by external "logic" the two...Then they do not separate acoustic and music as the north american consumers did more easily listening anything on bad audio ..Read me right here, the Japan average consumers is resembling the North american one nowadays , i spoke about the general traditional spirit manifested through history here and which persisted till this day in Japan, especially in their very alive audiophile industry ...
I dont know Japanin person by the way it is only my opinion and my feeling by my own intuition reading or seeing ...
if you go there you will have a portal open in Japan audiophiles dream...