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I'm not totally up to speed with the last crop of HS arms, but Japanese prep arms are going to be inherently 1 or 2 years ahead of their age bracket due to the larger amount of reps they've been through. Though that does equate to some damage, it also means that they're going to have less growing time in the minors. It also means the inverse: Japanese arms are through more, so the upper echelon that makes it through high school is going to have been through more stress tests, so to speak.
(Japanese arms are abused, but their regiment is built to theoretically support the load. I imagine US HS teams don't have them do a 200 pitch bullpen on their 3rd day (or every day), then go 150 for game time.)
Tazawa totally smashed the rules last year. It would have been nice to have that happen for two years in a row.