NI Holdings, Inc.

But imagine a buyer who wants everyone's book and nobody can tell you who that buyer is because that's happening in Japan right now.

According to Nippon TV, secondhand bookshops there have been getting strange bulk orders since August.

Some sellers are shipping around 100 books a day and the buyers want the book.

wants things like philosophy history medicine law and even an old windows 2000 manual so i don't know what are they going to do with it

Like the Smithsonian Universal Film Expedition of 1919, this undertaking was organized by a media company in hopes of capturing film of something incredible.

In this case, the organizer was Nippon Television, a Japanese TV network, as part of a more significant effort on their part to investigate the mysterious and unexplored regions of the world.

Lake Tele, located in the heart of Congo's vast and impenetrable Likaula Swamp, had long been rumored to be the home of the Mokele Bembe.

Previous expeditions undertaken from Europe and the U.S. had tried to penetrate this region's thick jungles, But they were often met with logistical challenges, from harsh climates to dangerous wildlife and diseases like malaria.

All right.

Well, Ujiie Seichiro, the former chairman of Nippon Television, is a big fan of Takahata's work, even telling Miyazaki that they were the best works Ghibli ever produced.

And this was after the success of Spirited Away, no less.

Seichiro asks Suzuki to push Takahata to make another film, and Suzuki is the one that tells Takahata he should consider making a movie based on the classic Japanese folk tale, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.

Hulu Japan is a solid mid-tier player in Japan's competitive premium SVOD service.

It's a domestic service, not the US Hulu, owned primarily by Nippon TV, which we're, of course, familiar with.

market position japan's premium streaming sector reached 7.2 billion in revenue in 2025 up 15 year-over-year with roughly about 68 million svod subscriptions the market is concentrated netflix amazon prime and unix together hold 50 of revenue so that doesn't include hulu on viewing hours hulu japan five percent which is over disney plus which i think is big in japan at least disney is three percent revenue share lower than the top three uh hulu gets about five to eight percent in some spot snapshots subscribers exact figures are not public but older data shows 2.8 million but that was a number of years ago so Prime Video leads in total subscribers.

So Hulu Japan occupies a stable mid-tier niche, stronger than pure niche services, but clearly behind the big three.

Uh, something really interesting though, uh, AEW has ended up, uh, on the Hulu, uh, in Japan.

Hulu in Japan is actually owned by NTV, Nippon TV.

You know NTV by the old New Japan, no, old All Japan shows.

So really interesting there.

They went from having no coverage to just being on my, from when they left New Japan World to being on my AEW and now they're on Hulu where I think they're going to air Dynamite and Collision, which I think is really interesting that they're getting that deal at this stage in the game seven years later, especially with Nippon TV, who is, I think, usually Nippon TV is the number one network in Japan.

Just saying.

Just saying interesting stuff here.

The Rose of Versailles' first episode, which is called Oscar! The Destiny of a Rose, was written by Yoshimi Shonzaki, based on the manga by Ryoko Ikeda, directed by Tadeo Nagahama and Yasuo Yamayoshi, It was created by the studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha.

It aired on October 10th, 1979 on Nippon Television.

And what happened in this first episode of The Rose of Versailles?

Frankly, but John, what didn't happen in the Rose of Versailles? I'll tell you.

And then AEW is also shifting homes in Japan.

They were previously streaming on New Japan World, and now they've moved to Hulu Japan, which is owned by Nippon TV, which used to be the broadcaster for All Japan Pro Wrestling in its heyday, and then Noah as well before dropping them.

Uh, they put out their press release that AEW Collision, Dynamite, and live pay-per-view events will begin streaming exclusively in Japan on Hulu Japan beginning November 2026.

Hulu Japan is an online video streaming service operated by HJ Holdings Inc. Um, yes, and then we just get our requisite ad for Hulu Japan.

And JWA, Japan Pro Wrestling, had two different network channels.

One company, but channel four, Nippon TV.

Channel 10, NET, TV Asahi.

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