I got pulled into a Twitter rabbithole around a year ago, and I'm floored by how enormous the community for this particular bird is in Japan. Had never heard of java finches until then, but they seem absolutely adored in Japan. Is it just an internet bubble?
by ilysioidapinglw13
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I do not know about how widely, but I know at least two people at work who have them and when we worked remote we used to asked them to show them to us sometimes. They seem to be beloved as you say, but I am sure the internet rabbit hole you fell into magnified it.
It is true that the buncho is most famous as a pet bird,
in the 1970s there was a huge nationwide boom in Japan.
However, it is not the same as the more common pets,
i.e., dogs and cats, hamsters, goldfish, etc., which are somewhat rare.