Why is .lzh format still popular with japs?

The rest of the world uses .zip and .rar and these retards still seem to use .lzh a lot.

It's not because the format itself was constructed by a "fellow" Jap is it?

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Not software, just an algorithm for converting one datastream to another (notice how I mentioned a VM).

Also storing filetype inside a file (such that 'file' can recognize it) is an even uglier hack than storing it in the filename. And it doesn't make opening files any easier at all.