Hey Dan,
yes I know, I own this VFD also.
Omron is a Japanese Corporation but let produce in China. Many do. Though I’m sure that it is still a high quality product. All my thinkpads are from China, even those with the “IBM” Label. Lenovo aquired the laptop branch but produced the thinkpads for IBM earlier. The last thinkpad which IBM designed itself was the X41 tablet subnotebook.
Many of my hand tools (the planes) come from a manufacturer in Canada. Its name is “truth” in Latin. My chisels are from Austria and Germany.