Yes. That's because those members and numbers are in the "western" database.
According to what Peggy Rae Sapienza (Nippon 2007's North American agent, as you know) told me, N2007 is maintaining two separate (and unjoined) membership databases. One is for "westerners" and one is for "non-westerners." The "western" members will register by last name/first name as is traditional at most western SF conventions. The "non-western" members will register by membership number, as is traditional at Japanese SF conventions. This split also facilitates printing names in different scripts.
It appears that the figures at nippon2007.us are drawing only from the "western" database, which is why the only member from Japan is a westerner living in Japan.
I don't make the decisions about these things. I'm just reporting what I've been told. I suppose it's possible, at least that nobody realized that anyone would be asking for combined figures of this sort.
Re: Numbers
According to what Peggy Rae Sapienza (Nippon 2007's North American agent, as you know) told me, N2007 is maintaining two separate (and unjoined) membership databases. One is for "westerners" and one is for "non-westerners." The "western" members will register by last name/first name as is traditional at most western SF conventions. The "non-western" members will register by membership number, as is traditional at Japanese SF conventions. This split also facilitates printing names in different scripts.
It appears that the figures at nippon2007.us are drawing only from the "western" database, which is why the only member from Japan is a westerner living in Japan.
I don't make the decisions about these things. I'm just reporting what I've been told. I suppose it's possible, at least that nobody realized that anyone would be asking for combined figures of this sort.