Check this out, You Tube vid of the history of the Suzuki Jimny Very Interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKOWZaBljKA&feature=related
Yes they mentioned that. What I didn't know until I saw the video was that there was 2 Jimny's at the same time - 1 "Kei" Jimny for JDM and 1 - Jimny for rest of world known under various names.