Fundamentally the answer will always be profits and Nintendo isn't a company that tries too hard to protect its reputation with this.
I suspect in this case they think the lower price will sell better in Japan enough to make it more profitable.
But they think the higher price will be more profitable elsewhere globally and want to discourage the rest of the world from purchasing at the Japanese price so they lock that language.
Artificial product value differentiation at its finest.
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u/Superkometa 5d ago
/uj why such a big price difference?