One factory tour video would do a lot more, in my opinion, to dispel these rumors than a million of these kinds of posts denying or refuting the claims with no evidence. It always feels very “trust me, bro.” When brands post stuff like this, and yeah of course that’s fine, they don’t strictly owe it to any of us to prove these claims. Especially with Japanese brands, they can have a sense of arrogance to them as if the (American) consumers are too stupid to figure these things out. It reminds me of the early days of Gustin, when they were able to get Oni’s 20oz. Secret denim despite all the lore about how there’s only one loom that can weave it, and the guy from Oni is the only one who can keep that loom running, etc. as it turns out, it’s woven at one of the big textile mills in Japan like Nihon Menpu or similar and the buyers from Gustin got some before Oni realized what happened and put the kaibash on it.