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the "Visual Industry Strategy Advancement Research Society"(?) was formed by Otaku LDP 2nd chair Yamada Tarou, platform regulator Kobayashi Fumiaki, and foreign affairs ex-PM Kishida Fumio, with the general aim of promoting and supporting the entire "visual" industry (inc. anime)
one of their first actions is to gather all entities concerning payment within Japan to get everyone on the same page, sometime late Aug or early Sept
they likely already knew VISA/MC were exerting pressure onto gateways and likely already have something drafted, but still have to do all this formal performant shit