&gt; Crunchyroll has quite a bit of non-anime content to offer<p>Yeah, they have a drama-only section that even then is 80% Korean (nothing wrong with that, just I&#x27;m not personally studying Korean.) And no option to turn off the English subtitles unless I want to watch movies on my computer instead of my TV. And absolutely, definitely, 100% <i>never</i> any offer for Japanese subtitles (closed captioning.) Very, very rare even on Netflix Japan, but it helps so much when I can find them.<p>&gt; The oddest thing for me are the constantly blocked Japanese music videos on Youtube.<p>Yeah ... I don&#x27;t understand that at all. Of all the countries, Japan seems to have the most obscenely strict copyright takedown enforcements of all. I pretty much always have to resort to torrents to obtain songs even remotely popular.<p>Japan really is a country that&#x27;s stuck in the &#x27;90s. No surprise that also includes their views on music.<p>&gt; Why is a music video blocked outside of Japan, when you can buy the song via the regional iTunes store?<p>I&#x27;m surprised they even let you buy it on iTunes. Apple must be forcing their hand somehow.<p>I&#x27;ve always dealt with extreme aversion to selling to me. The Japanese famously hate selling their wares internationally. It&#x27;s pretty much a given that anything on Yahoo! Japan will be from sellers that refuse to ship internationally, so you have to use deputy services and pay them an extra 30% markup (plus a predatory and unfair yen exchange rate that&#x27;s off by 15+ yen from the real market value.) And even <i>then</i>, there are sellers that track deputy IDs and will delete deputy bids. I&#x27;ve even come across one such seller, and my deputy of choice used one of their &#x27;hidden&#x27; IDs to pick it up anyway. They&#x27;re so used to it that they already had sleeper accounts for dealing with such sellers, despite having 100% perfect payment histories to sellers.<p>There are several major doujinshi websites for buying from artists, and these sites are 100% perfectly capable of accepting Visa cards from anywhere in the world (&quot;it&#x27;s everywhere you want to be... unless you want to be in Japan&quot;), yet they block you anyway.<p>It was only just very recently that Amazon finally started selling new Japanese games internationally. Before then, I was paying 50% markups to small, sleazy extortionist companies. On top of having to buy Japanese systems to get around their region blocking attempts. Half surprised the fuckers don&#x27;t try to use GPS to pinpoint you&#x27;re not actually in Japan while playing their precious games.<p>Apologies if I seem bitter... it&#x27;s because I am. I probably wasted $2000 on deputy fees alone trying to build a game collection and buy other items I like. And the harder I try to practice and learn this language, the more I get taken for a ride.