An American news article with terrible and inaccurate generalizations about Asian people? I'm shocked.
Apple products are immensely popular in all of Asia, because they're fucking awesome and appeal to Asians for the same reasons they appeal to Americans, for the most part. But there's no news story in that - Apple products are popular everywhere, so what.
Write a story about how Apple is being rejected using some half-cocked cultural stereotypes about Japanese people that ignorant head-nodders will use to reaffirm their own prejudices - that'll get clicks.