Were Victrola VV-4-3 made in Japan?

[Columbia78]

Interesting item I found while looking for information about my Kumabe's Apollon, seems to indicate design and production of VV-4-3 was in Japan, this is very interesting...

https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/klaviermann2000/32984776.html

Can anyone comment on this?

US VICTROLA VV 4 - 3 production number　230 thousand units There is a flashy design like UK HMV
Although it can not say anything, calm colors and design become suited to Japanese houses (its translation is ...)
This lovely design was produced in Japan, assembled US mechanical parts in Japan Wood was procured in Japan (All early models are dry in the US · · · Kibe It becomes a slightly noisy assembly)　　　　　　　　　　　　
It was assembled in elaborate Japan to increase accuracy, the manufacturing cost was lowered in reverse and it was on sale in the United States.
At that time it was a wonderful product that Japanese wooden artist's technique as a processing trading country was introduced.

The first one of the VV4-3 type is made by pure US or Canada, but the beautiful exterior design which this model also sees is skillful of skill; it is due to Japanese craftsmen. Pure US made is simple and boring, just as the grid in front of the horn is in the side like a ladder. In addition, there is a splint in the inside of the right angle portion of the main body angle (gap clearance ??). In the latter term, like the 1-80 type, VV4-3 was also produced as the only domestic floor type of VV: J4-3 type. From 1929, VICTROLA U.S. has completely shifted manufacturing to electric gramophone using vacuum tube.

In the very early stage of VV 4 - 3, all the metal parts were assembled in the US, wood was also made in the US, but in the time of this production number, American wood was processed domestically, precisely by adding the technique of Miya Daiko. The box is finished tightly and accurately beautifully and it is made. Those that were equipped with a US-made mechanical drive unit and were assembled and completed in Japan were sold in the form of reverse imports to the United States. This is one of them ...

[OrthoFan]

According to the JVC website, the production plant started up in 1930 -- http://www.jvc.com/company/index.jsp?pageID=2

I also spotted another reference that a version of the 4-3 was manufactured in Japan, made by a poster to a question asked on a radio forum -- http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/vie ... hp?t=75529

"IN 1927, the owners of the Victor firm (Seligman, Speyer & Co., a Wall Street Investment house) authorised the formation of a Japanese subsitiary(sic), primarily financed with some Japanese capital, but with majority American ownership. The firm produced a modest product line of smaller instruments (The 1-80, rather a cross between the American 1-70 and 1-90, a portable, much like the 2-55, and their version of the second style 4-3)"

Unfortunately, the poster does not cite any sources.

OrthoFan

[epigramophone]

The British take on the VV-4-3 was the HMV Model 156 of 1926 to 1928.
Available in oak or mahogany it proved popular, and good examples can still be found at reasonable prices.