Nankai was made in Japan until they closed. NYB is the new Nankai and they are still made in Japan.
Not so much a "re-badge" as it is the son of the original Nankai proprietor choosing to continue his father's business. All things considered, that situation could easily have gone either way and we could have been looking at the Nankai system becoming nothing more than a fond memory, whilst bitching about 69,420 re-badged
YuHub clones! Stoked to see what NYB will bring to the table, although it looks like we might be in for a bit of a wait...