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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masque" data-source="post: 1477127" data-attributes="member: 9792">In Japan, it's a translation and demand issue.  The way translations, as far as I know, are done here is to break the book up into chunks and a different person translates each one.  They are then squished back together.  It gets books done quickly (especially the huge ones, like Harry Potter), but you have to pay all the different translators.  This is also a reason books translated into Japanese sometimes have very good translations in one part and one that confuses the issue in another.As for demand, children are encouraged to specialize: to do one thing and do it well.  This usually excludes roleplaying, especially as kids also spend lots of time in juku/cram school.  I should know, I teach at one.  There's a girl named Ayane who stays from 5:30 to 9 for 3 nights a week, and then goes home and sometimes studies until 4 in the morning.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  With her club after school (I forget which one), it doesn't leave time for much else.  I feel RPGs need large chunks of time to play well, and that really isn't available for most people (vast amounts of study, or vast amounts of work).Low demand, many skilled laborers = high prices.That, and the imported German RPG... I expected it to be expensive, but over US$150 for 120 pages, times four, plus the 300 page base rulebook (price indeterminate)... I nearly had a heartattack right there.  I was certainly worried about leaving fingerprints. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

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