Attention people, this is important. The definition of Western RPG and JRPG is at the stake.
Cookiegod didn't answer satisfactorily. He never does, even if he is right. Especially not then.
What he did, however, is to open up an existential question:
Just what is West Japan?
This? That?
Or perhaps that?
Maybe we can even go so far and say that Japan is weird enough a place that everything can be true. But that clashes with the fact it is the year 2020. There can be only one answer. Everything else is automatically wrong. Hence you can only vote for one option.
Please help against the spread of fake news and help solve this.