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>>15740838
They’ve made a few.
It isn’t worth the investment in completely changing the power internals to make country-specific versions.
Many Chinese and Koreans make shopping trips to Japan for larger-ticket items, and frequently buy Japanese rice cookers and it’s on them to buy the power converters.
So Zoji is still selling to a lot of Chinese/Koreans without having to make special models.

Making a special model results in much higher prices; pic related. It’s a store in Osaka that sells items made for Korean/Chinese electric standards.
Tiger has to sell these special ones for twice as much to make up for the production cost, since they don’t manufacture nearly as many.