This will not address the problem. What will happen is here, a bunch of shady companies will sell gambling spyware and porn apps on a third party app store. Ev

This will not address the problem. What will happen is here, a bunch of shady companies will sell gambling spyware and porn apps on a third party app store. Everyone who wants to make money will sell on the legitimate app store. DMM, for example, will have an app store, and it will be filth. Japan has a massive elderly population who will just get sucked in installing shady crap on their devices. I sympathize with the idea, but in practice, it won't work out the way people think it will. Maybe this would be a good plan if it was more complete. For example, who moderates any new app stores, who vets the software, what government incentives are in place for better, more secure competitive software to emerge domestically? This just seems like monkey see monkey do with Europe.