It may seem like they value a lot of text on page, but in fact, they just value content over presentation a lot more. There's a good reason for this: A LOT of

It may seem like they value a lot of text on page, but in fact, they just value content over presentation a lot more. There's a good reason for this: A LOT of mobile users in Japan who prefer to interact via text, email and/or short form message board, uploading photos/vids as needed, than through their desktops/laptops (although plenty of those as well). Because it's so mobile heavy, you'll often find a lot of sites, usually personal ones, with barely enough HTML to render a usable page in Shift-JIS and that's good enough for them.