slate.com — iTunes Music Store has a secret hiding in plain sight: Log out of your home account in the page's upper-right corner, switch the country setting at the bottom of the page to Japan, and you're dropped down a rabbit hole into a wonderland of great Japanese bands that you've never even heard of. But try to purchase them, and you'll get turned away...
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aemaeth7Jan 24, 2007
Where would one go to get a Japanese credit card with perhaps with an English version of their website (and not from Japan)?
canthrosJan 24, 2007
1. This problem is not Apple's fault. It is the result of decisions made by the various recording companies and industries.2. I've heard J-Pop. 'Insanely great' might be overselling things a bit.
canthrosJan 24, 2007
@ElRanzer: Electronic media is probably licensed differently than physical media. Buy a Japanese CD through Amazon.jp and the Japanese publisher already got their cut when Amazon purchased the CD for sale. Apple pays some sort of fee to the publisher on each sale (probably in addition to another fee for the privilege of offering the item for sale in the first place). Because they don't buy copies of the file to sell at a markup, that money doesn't get paid until after the sale is made, and who it goes to is probably based on the region in which the sale was made.
mediaproneJan 24, 2007
Liking music from Japan makes you a Japanophile? You're a f**king idiot. Grow up.
shamamJan 24, 2007
I'd like to add Pizzicato Five and Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re.
renderJan 24, 2007
Japanese credit cards are a bitch to get. Japanese people don't use credit cards, lol. Do US JCB cards work on JiTMS?
monkeybutlerJan 24, 2007
If I wanted to listen to Japanese people I'd go to the Zoo.