Where are Japanese and American hardware produced?

[nocturnal YL]

Sorry for posting too much stuff all at a sudden, but here are the information I found.

When I took a look on several consoles, I found the followings.

(1) For the console itself, US consoles are "Made in China", and Japanese consoles are "Made in Japan.¹

(2) For the peripherals, I can't tell. My NTR-002 and NTR-004 are made in China, and my DOL-002 is made in Japan. And my NTR-009 has no describtion of the manufacturing place on it. Strangely, all my 4 DOL-003's are made in China.²

(3) For the games themselves, all of them (including manuals and packages) are made in Japan.

Why is it so strange? If Nintendo has a factory set in China, where (At least, I want to know which province) is it ?



Summary:
Consoles
US - Made in China
JP - Made in Japan
EU - anyone check for me?

Peripherials
It depends

Games
All made n Japan



¹I have a US DS (and it's just because of the Metroid Prime Hunters demo!), a Japanese Gamecube and a Japanese GBC - of course, a Japanese Super Famicom.

²Ugh... for those who don't know, NTR-002 and DOL-002 are power adapters, NTR-004 is the stylus, NTR-009 is the string used to tie up your thumb so that you can use your thumb to control your DS touch screen (or, tie up your index finger so that you can use your finger to draw), and a DOL-002 is a controller.

EDIT: I give up... I admit it, you can't tie up your finger and use it to draw, I tried to use this method to play Touch & Go, and can hardly to draw paths correctly that I can't even play Score Attack mode well..

[mrmolecule]

I remember on my Game Boy...the Game Boy itself was easily assembled in China, while the cartridges were made with care in Japan.