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Netflix Japan ‘s 10th Birthday
Jappreciation: Hard to believe, but Netflix is this week marking 10 years in Japan. A decade ago the Los Gatos-headquartered streamer had precisely zero market and public presence, but now it reaches 10 million people in Japan and is colloquially known as ‘Netofuri.’ No surprise then that a company not averse to tooting its own horn spent much of the week horn-tooting. Amid the celebrations, Sara Merican secured an exclusive chat with Kaata Sakamoto , Netflix’s Vice-President of Content for Japan, who reminisced on the early days and laid out the vision. “When the servic