jap to global version

Does anyone know if the global version will ever catch up to the jap version, cause I really want the strongworld and kimono strawhats in my global account, I created my jap account just to get those characters and more

Eventually they should as area development for jpn will take longer than conversion of areas from jpn to global.

yes but global will still have to wait on development for jap, then wait for translation and conversion, so imo no it will not catch up... which is fine, because you always get to see whats coming

After they are on same island they could do development for both sets at same time (just have multiple languages being worked on). If there is a delay it would be at most 2weeks to a month imo.