Simon sent me a PM about the status of Ilford products in Japan the other day, and that's very nice. Otherwise, no voices from the users can be really heard from the (very) Far East region...
The crisis that many users in Japan is facing is that there are only two products available for non-hardening fixer and HCA within the country. Ilford is one, obviously, which makes them, and the other one is, believe or not, Kodak. Fuji doesn't offer non-hardening fixer at all, so for the paper use, that's about all the choices we have now domestically. And I've been sticking with the Ilford products because they are really good products!