This is probably SONY's though process:

-Spend money partnering with Activision on Destiny or release niche Japanese games
-Spend money on The Order 1866 or release niche Japanese games

The PS3 sold 10million lifetime sales in Japan. The PS4 will be lucky to hit that even if SONY gave a big push with games.
Meanwhile the PS4 will have a chance to sell 100million Worldwide.

So should they be spending money on the 90million or the 10 million. Its easy to see why they don't care about Japan.

They released japanese games for the PS3 and it got them nowhere and lost them ground in the West where MS was grabbing third party partnerships (Mass effect, Bioshock, GOW).

This gen we have already seen Sony work with Ubisoft for Watchdogs and Bungie for Destiny and seen the huge dividends with sales for Watch Dogs being 2:1 in sales for the PS4 vs X1. Also, Arkham Knight too. These games are system sellers to 360/PS3 owners in the West looking to upgrade and with the limited money SONY has its best spent in the West.

Sony lost billions last gen and are clearly focusing on profitability. They've already stopped supporting the Vita with big budget games and now Japanese centric games.

The PSP was saved in Japan thanks to Monster Hunter and I'm guessing they're hoping for the same with KH3, FF15 and other third party publishers for the PS4.

I still think Japan will return to Sony after FF, KH, Metal Gear Solid, GT, Tales of, Persona, Dynasty Warriors, Yakuza and other series come to PS4, that's why I think Sony has barely done anything to get Japan back, and the Vita isn't doing too bad, 

Dead Island is a third-party game, and 2 zombie games (one not even available for PS4) in the last 2 years don't make Sony zombie game lovers. You act as if TLOU and H1Z1 are all that Sony publishes.

Just 2 of their 11 games released in 2013 and 2014 are zombie shooters.

Anyways they are also pushing the genre forward with The Order: 1886 which has werewolves rather than zombies and is shaping up to be spectacular.

Most Japanese games are slow, boring and mediocre anyways. The only ones I like are MGS, GT, SoulCalibur and Tekken and the latter two have already gone F2P.

Makes me wonder if he actually played it considering the enemies in TLOU are mostly human with some parasitic fungus infected humans thrown in along the way.

To quote ND:

Honestly I think they have Japanese games in development, but they're just not ready to be shown. I think the issue is games take a long time to produce, and Japanese Devs just didn't have the time needed to launch their games at PS4 launch day....I don't think we'll ever have the support PS2 had, but we'll see some level of support even if its minor.

Not true. Sony never produced many japanese games to begin with. And the japanese games that was in development never really got to where people wanted it (the last guardian). It is also because many of the japanese developers were third party so they just didnt stick with sony.

No, Sony has not abandoned Japan. As many posters said this thread was premature.

PS4 sales have already improved a lot even though only spin-offs have been released like DQ Heroes, MGS GZ, Yakuza Ishin+Zero, FF Type-0 and RE Revelations 2 (VGC has yet to show Bloodborne boost).

I think it's reasonable to believe that sales will improve even more with releases of more quality PS4 exclusives that appeal to the common Japanese gamer. PS4 still doesn't have the Japanese mainline blockbusters like:

Final Fantasy XV
Resident Evil 7
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Gran Turismo 7
Kingdom Hearts 3
Hot Shots Golf 7
Dragon's Dogma Online
Star Ocean 5, Persona 5, next Tales of game and all the other popular JRPGS
Dragon Quest XI (not in the slightest confirmed but would improve Japanese PS4 sales as well)
Monster Hunter 5 (not in the slightest confirmed but would improve Japanese PS4 sales as well)
etc.

What are this necrobump about PS4 and Japan!? O.o

The other thread got locked for no reason before OP was able to redeem himself. :D