Yeah, that car is actually designed and built in Japan and then shipped over here, but most of the vehicles that you see in the United States w/ a toyota logo on them are designed in Ann Arbor, Michigan right here in the good ole' USA.
I had a japanese Prius over the summer for a weekend and it had the "automatic parallel parking" feature on it. You wanna talk about cool ? This technology has been over in Japan for a couple years now, look for it to be on the american version of the Prius in the near future. Anyway it's pretty bad ass, the navigation screen turns into a backup camera and tells you where it is going to park for you. You gotta try that shit out... it's tits
Let me know what kind of milage you get with it... they rated it at 60, but people are actually only getting 40-50 (only, haha)