Re: [tlug] Japan to Tax E-Content

[steve <sjs@example.com>]

On 01/14/2014 07:19 PM, CL wrote:
> Another reason to hate Abe and the LDP.  By 2015, you'll have to pay
> shouhizei on the content you download from overseas, a move to "protect"
> domestic book retailers. Yeah, sure, I believe that. There are so many
> English-language e-book sales outlets in our local shotengai ... and I
> walk right by all of them to go to Amazon ...
I guess protecting their domestic book retailers is why it's so 
difficult to get japanese ebooks outside of japan too.  I don't get 
it...  Is this some form of 鎖国?

Steve S.