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JRPGs wound up in a different category since in the 80's and 90's the Japanese and westerners were making wildly different kinds of RPGs.
Back then they made narrative focused turn based games while westerners made crunchy sort of open world tabletop RPG inspired games like Fallout or Planescape: Torment. By the time the line started to blur and other countries started making JRPG style games the name had stuck.
It is funny since now depending on who you ask a lot of modern Japanese RPGs aren't exactly JRPGs since they are full on action RPGs with very little actual RPG elements.