Moreover, luxury products can't really be much cheaper. How could one expect products from a developed country to have a lower unit price than those from a developing country?
The ones with a low unit price are basically local specialties.
And what's Japan's specialty?
Some pharmaceutical cosmetics, along with some industrial products.
Industrial products are also cheap domestically; cars of the same quality, domestic ones are cheaper than Japanese ones.
Cars at the same price point, domestic cars have better quality than Japanese ones.
As for pharmaceutical cosmetics? That's even more of a scam.
Japanese pharmaceutical cosmetics have extremely loose standards; a certain eye drop contains all banned substances domestically. Although it shows immediate effects after use, the harm to the body is permanent.
It might even cause dependency.
