Well... Japan is a special kind of 'tarded. You know how we have crunchyroll? That doesn't exist in Japan. Amazon, Netflix; numerous industries just don't exis

Well... Japan is a special kind of 'tarded. You know how we have crunchyroll? That doesn't exist in Japan. Amazon, Netflix; numerous industries just don't exist. The #1 search engine in Japan? Yahoo, although even they can't explain this last bastion. So first of all we got a weird issue of lack of technological disruption in a very wired country. Secondly, and this is a lot weirder, it all really comes down to lack of being able to fix their own issues. Japan does not sell B2B software at all, and large companies like Sony/Mitsubishi/Fujitsu basically keep programmers fucked by making everything private gardens. Because no one can compete with the internal services, it is a slow death through incestuous defense of certain technology choices with no alternatives. Everything basically comes down to that oh-so-famous Japanese proverb: "the nail that stands out gets hammered down."