I'm having trouble finding the reference now, but years ago I did read a story about how an early version of Unicode's reference document depicted CJK characters in a font with Chinese-styled characters, causing slowed adoption in Japan who had a gut reaction that "Unicode is too Chinese". Later editions printed several variations of characters, and the objections mostly evaporated.

(Apologies if I've gotten the countries reversed in this story, it's been years and google is failing me)