This thing is built like a fucking tank, it will never ever ever fail.
Compare that to the same model sold outside of Japan, and it's most likely made in Indonesia and the quality is nowhere near.
Except being built like a tank, Japan made one also vibrates less and more comfortable to use.
( And somehow he is Canadian but speaks a little Cantonese )
He's a private dude, but I think his wife is french-canadian and he's at least bilingual. And from what I've gathered he has to have done some kind of mechanical engineering for a LONG time. Dude knows his stuff about anything mechanical.
His teardown of the Juicero is pure gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
It's an amazing insight into a startup with endless amounts of money, bunch of really smart people, but no real business model. =)