One of the most depressing things about Japan's autistic laws/regs/SOPs is the degree to which they stifle and totally disincentivize starting a business. So many JP chuubas are stuck in corpos, working multiple jobs or forced into retirement because their streaming activites can't yet pay the bills.
From a monetary, geographical, connectivity, societal structure/values standpoint, Japan should be an e-commerce/info monster, especially for niche interests and boutique, artisanal specialty goods. But it's not, thanks to the complete boomer retardation that their gerontocracy has built over the last 30-40 years, and are now defending to their last breath.
Every 4-5 months I start looking at bootstrapping something and the banking logistics alone are enough to make me say "fuck it."