@@barmusica6868A pleasure. It's my years of teaching music that makes me notice these things. And I agree with you regarding the playing of Mozart. And his Schubert!
The main reason is that it draws audiences. Japanese people like things to be "famous." However, recently, there have finally been more opportunities to play other arrangements. The Stokowski and Ashkenazy versions are sometimes programmed. Personally, I like the Funtek version the best.
Je l ai écouté à paris et j ai vu son retour au japon dirigeant,formant etc des jeunes etautres musiciens.Un homme de talents et de bontées/ma gratitude de bordeaux