All true. I marketed, exported, and helped our Japanese partners sell American products there for many years. Their consumers are obsessive about quality, not only in the products but in the packaging and presentation. Aesthetics are as important to them as function. It was frustrating when explaining this to my fellow Americans who were making the goods led to blank stares and shrugs.
I had experience that both in Japan and in South Korea. I hate to discard some of the packaging; the neatness and beauty of it all was part of the experience of being there.