As a composer who lives inside this industry, I've watched this happen up close. Japanese people, both individuals and companies, are bad at content business. The root cause is simple: an obsession with controlling content perfectly. And if that perfect control isn't possible, don't release it at all. The result? An enormous graveyard of buried content that never sees the light of day. Take music. There are countless tracks that still aren't available on any legitimate stream

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