Yes, this is a problem! The latency from a location in Japan (close to Osaka) to Tokyo is 250ms right now... Traffic gets routed over the US. Is there any plan to fix this soon? If not it would be better to change the endpoint to somewhere in the US...

Here is my traceroute:

root@inet-gw:~# traceroute 74.82.46.6
traceroute to 74.82.46.6 (74.82.46.6), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  221.113.141.105 (221.113.141.105)  2.289 ms  2.092 ms  2.027 ms
 2  221.113.141.97 (221.113.141.97)  2.189 ms  2.074 ms  1.784 ms
 3  118.23.131.25 (118.23.131.25)  2.077 ms  1.702 ms  1.917 ms
 4  118.23.85.145 (118.23.85.145)  5.997 ms  4.298 ms  4.013 ms
 5  221.184.18.85 (221.184.18.85)  2.424 ms  2.065 ms  2.400 ms
 6  211.122.1.89 (211.122.1.89)  2.682 ms  2.305 ms  2.157 ms
 7  180.37.209.70 (180.37.209.70)  3.007 ms  2.701 ms  2.616 ms
 8  ae-1.r20.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.12.29)  12.714 ms  12.814 ms  13.768 ms
 9  as-2.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.164)  122.629 ms  122.630 ms  114.925 ms
10  ae-1.r06.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.13)  125.769 ms  125.691 ms  125.404 ms
11  64.208.27.185 (64.208.27.185)  126.514 ms  te3-3-10G.ar3.SJC2.gblx.net (64.215.195.137)  120.751 ms  te2-3-10G.ar3.SJC2.gblx.net (208.178.58.201)  125.972 ms
12  Hurrican-Electric-LLC.Port-channel100.ar3.SJC2.gblx.net (64.214.174.246)  120.979 ms  110.237 ms  117.378 ms
13  10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.tyo1.he.net (72.52.92.238)  245.942 ms  238.383 ms  238.643 ms
14  tserv1.tyo1.he.net (74.82.46.6)  248.392 ms  248.764 ms  249.003 ms