Japanese Color Scheme

I broke my first rubiks cube and bought a diy. i found my dads old rubiks cube from when he was a kid in the 80's and it had the jap scheme (and faded red stickers so like 2 orange sides). even though the cube was pretty bad i did improve about 5 seconds on my time. it actually took me a while to realize the japanese scheme.
 
Wow, I thought I was the only one who really liked the Japanese colour scheme after I switched to it. I used to not be able to slot to the back without checking colours, but now I can. I have no idea why. I use yellow cross, so green is on top (Or left if I'm doing F2L (COR)), don't know if that makes a difference.
 
i found my dads old rubiks cube from when he was a kid in the 80's and it had the jap scheme

That's because the "Japanese color scheme" was actually the original color scheme for the cube.
The international color scheme (the BOY or American colors) is the newer one.
 
That's because the "Japanese color scheme" was actually the original color scheme for the cube.
The international color scheme (the BOY or American colors) is the newer one.
Then why is the "Original" color scheme called the "Japanese" color scheme? If the original Rubik's came out in Hungary, then shouldn't it be called the "Hungarian" color scheme?
 
It's just called that because for whatever reason it became standard for many Japanese cubers, but most of the rest of the world uses the BOY scheme.
 
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