I haven't looked at the Hitachi scopes, but from a quick google search, the V1565 certainly looks nice, although it is only 2 channel.
There's a 4-channel model of the same scope named V-1585.
There's also older and newer 4-channel models with different model names.
I think the 2- and 4-channel 100 MHz models before before V-1565 / V-1585 were named V-1065 / V-1085. You can find pictures of them all if you google them. They look very similar.
Edit: I just found the operation manual online for the following Hitachi Models all in one manual:
V-1585, V-1565, V-695, V-1085, V-1065A, V-665A, V-1560, V-1060, V-660.
So it looks they are all part of the same generation and series.
You can download the manual in two RAR parts here, so you can compare the models yourself:
Part 1:
http://www.eserviceinfo.com/download.php?fileid=31141Part 2:
http://www.eserviceinfo.com/download.php?fileid=31142Maybe you should also consider LeCroy? That's an American brand too like Tektronix and HP/Agilent. I have only experience from an extremely expensive 500 MHz 4-channel LeCroy in the early 90's. Back when a 500 MHz scopes were still extremely expensive. That was the first scope I ever saw with 4 different colours, 1 for each channel. It cost around 100,000 USD back then IIRC.
Hameg that I also mentioned is a German brand.