Among the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s content-industry subsidy program “IP360,” “Support for Expanding Distribution Platforms” (Menu 5), which supports the overseas distribution infrastructure for Japanese-origin content, is the largest of all nine IP360 menus, offering up to ¥3 billion per company (at a 50% subsidy rate). According to the selection results announced on June 26, 15 of 42 applications were selected (an application-to-selection