Japanese Vinyl Pressing

I have quite a few Japanese albums and for the most part they sound better than US pressing. They have quieter backgrounds, the music sounds clearer and more crisp. I find the Gold Disks album releases sound about the best as far as Bass is concerned. But Pink Floyds The Wall has the most bass of any Japanese pressing I have heard to date.
I think Bass is minimized as much as possible because of the tight living condition of the cities in Japan, just my opinion BTW.
Also this may or may not be true. I heard but do not remember from who that vinyl for records in the US since the late 60's was from any old vinyl they could find. Car tops, flooring etc. They were melted down again with all the impurities to make records. That’s why the surfaces were getting noisier and noisier.
Japan made their vinyl for records from scratch.

I have a couple of Japanese and have heard more. They are usually better but not always,but that's life.

I have a Brubeck release called "Brubeck Gold". If you like "Take Five", you need to hear this version.Much more dynamic and much lower sound floor.I bought it online (not telling,not ebay)and they thing looks like it was in a fire. There is smoke damage on the cover and some of the vinyl looks discolored.That said it plays perfectly!

Yes .It is true.

In fact The same is true for the Japanese pressed SACDs and CDs too.

The German pressings are also much more superior than american ones

No doubt (from my own experience) that pressings are superior, but to me the sound is subtly more dull. Generally-speaking, t's not just Japanese (re) pressings, but Philips pressings of Columbia (Szell, Walter, Stravinsky) or German pressings of "Shaded Dogs." Enjoy, but proceed with caution. I'll take a few ticks or surface noise of domestic pressings along with the more immediate sound.

Adding to what Jdaniel says, German pressings of early EMI classical records also can't match up to liveness of British EMIs.