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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