Sorry for using English since my Japanese writing is 下手 I think a lot of Japanese snowboards are really overpriced. Making snowboard is more like a traditional industry, it's all about combining different materials and there are not so much "High Tech" inside. So the price of some Japanese snowboards are way higher than other high-end board from other brand like bataleon/burton/nitro which are sponsors of a lot of olympic level snowboarders. This is ridiculous lol.