Japanese Online Music Market Yet To Take Off

The real reason, besides eveything else mentioned in this story, is that the primary conduit to the online world in Japan and other Asian countries is a cellphone rather than a personal computer, and so storing music on computers is not as common as in other countries.

Another is proliferation of rental shops that lend out the latest CD releases for a few hundred yen. This cheap source of music, analysts and industry executives say, also explains why illegal download services haven’t been a big problem in Japan.

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