I'd like to see you get ergo shifters to work with a Shimano 10s cassette as the spacing is reported to be different.
As far as cranks go you'll always have lots of choice there. I use a FSA team issue carbon pro in octalink version (with has 9speed rings) with a Campagnolo 10s drivetrain and the shifting is better than any campagnolo crankset i've tried (Record included).
The only area IME where campag is better than shimano is in the rear derailleur and ergo shifter layout (which I prefer), however I can live with the STi Layout.

I don't see how Octalink is limiting your choice of cranksets though. All the major Crank Set players ie Shimano, FSA, TA specialities, Stronglight make canks for Octalink. Campag will swithc to ISIS because it cannot makea BB on it's own without changing the std's significantly.

Shimano have now shown a new way to make cranks and BB's stiffer and place lower load on the bearings by mounting the bearing outside the BB shell. Clever, lateral and different from anything that had gone before it.]

Eventually, all cranks will be made this way. and as with Octalink, Imitiation will be the sincerest form of flattery.

PS: The bit on anti japanese ie possible racism was a blanket statement not directed at you Khuon.

I woonder if anyone knows that Shimano bicycle components are designed in Germany by Shimano Europe and manufactured in their plants in the Czech Republic, japan, malaysia....