Production Japanese bikes generally suffered from design mediocrity and or size problems. I can't speak of the Fuji brand as they rarely made it to the left coast, the shipping was too much of a burden to the slim profit margins that bike shops still endure. Top tubes were too long for the small frames, too short for the largest, BB heights too high, generally sized only as 19", 21", 23", 25". For fitting that missed a lot of folk.
For most European frames kickstands were cut to 265mm, for most Japanese bikes 285 or 290mm. The tubing and metalwork was there, just the geometry was not on a par with the European offerings, but they all shifted better until Japanese parts got spec'd on the European brands.

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