From Hasselblad. I wonder what "largely designed and manufactured" means? I wonder why Hasselblad would let Fuji sell "their" cameras under the Fuji brand if they were really doing all the work. The Japanese are as fanatical about European photographic equipment as anyone else in the world, maybe more so. There is no benefit for Hasselblad to brand their cameras as Fuji. (In fact, the X-Pan was "imported" into Japan so the customers could get the Hasselblad name on it--call it the Red Dot syndrome. Even the "Rollei" branded CV Voightlander rangefinder was sold in Japan.) I am sure over time the manufacturing moves around, but to brand Fuji as an insignificant partner is a bit much.
Sorry, I'm not privy to Hasselblad's business arrangements with their suppliers, or what Fuji may have paid Hasselblad for the right to sell the Fuji H body in Japan ... if anything. Nor can I find the Fuji "H" camera on Fuji's current global website. Do they even market that camera in Japan anymore?
All I know is that saying the Hasselblad H cameras are made by Fuji in Japan is incorrect.
They are "Made in Sweden", same as the V cameras. What "Made In" means these days may be the actual question
Components for any number of cameras can be made in many different places ... it is a global economy after-all. I take "Made In" to mean majority design control (even with contributors outside of Sweden), final assembly, and quality control.
Not that it would make any difference IMO. The Contax 645 was the breakthrough MF system of its time, and everything was made in Japan ... including the lenses at the Carl Zeiss Institute in Japan. And, the much loved XPan was all Fuji ... how many of us would care where it was made, if that XPan were now available in a digital version? I wouldn't.
All the best,
-Marc