If it is the case, they aren't all going about setting their times in the same manner.
There were ten drivers from Japan in the Top 18 but they set their times on different
devices.
Six using a 900' wheel.
Three using a controller/stick.
One using a 200' wheel.
It is interesting though. : )
Yea, I mean, I definitely wasn't implying that I think they are all the same person or anything, if that's how it came off.
At the time I made that post, what I was commenting on was that in the span of a few days it suddenly went from a statistically normal/typical distribution of country representation in the top 12 spots, to suddenly 9 of the top 12 spots being from Japan. And, on top of that, a similar thing seemed to have happened in one of the TT's from the previous month, and in that one it looked like none, or almost none (with the exception of maybe Wolf and one other guy) of those top guys ever beat their own times after setting said times very early on in the TT.
This probably came off like I was making some sort of comment against them, or accusing them of something negative, but I actually wasn't. In a weird way, I was asking it both in terms of being genuinely curious about it/why that phenomenon was occurring in that manner, and also in a positive/making-a-compliment type of way, as in, I got the sense that their top guys are extremely good, like, better than all the other countries at racing games or something, in the sense that maybe its like, for the top guys of most other countries, they have to work really hard all month long at trying to get into the top of the leaderboard, whereas maybe the top Japanese players are able to set an already extremely strong time, right off the bat, on certain tracks, or certain car/track combos or something, that they can kind of all do like an unspoken agreement to all come in early in a TT and "lay down the law" to show off their country's skills, by dropping a big amount of top times dominating the top of the leaderboard very early on, and then intentionally not even bother to keep doing more attempts throughout the month to improve their times for the most part, so that when 3 weeks later a person checks the leaderboard, they can see like, WHOA, look how many of the top 12 times were done in the first few days of the TT, that's extremely impressive. Whereas, if they improved their times by a few tenths later on in the TT, then the date-stamp aspect of the impressiveness would be ruined, in that people would have no way of instantly understanding just how good of an early-time these top guys set at the beginning of the TT.
So, basically, it's sort of like an interesting form of showing off (well, maybe, I mean, obv there could be plenty of other reasons behind the phenomenon as well, this is just one hypothetical possibility), in terms of caring more about how EARLY in a TT you can set a super strong time, than caring about dropping a handful of spots towards the end of the TT, as a result of intentionally not trying to improve said time in the remaining 3+ weeks of the TT after setting said early time.
Basically, I am both curious about (in a good way), and also extremely impressed, by these big ratio-dominations of the top of the leaderboard early on in TT's by Japanese players. So, to summarize, I think these top Japanese dudes are pretty cool, and I am a fan of this early TT-sweep thing they are doing. I think it looks pretty swag-a-licious, lol.