People in Japan are freaking out because they can't play 'Pokemon Go'
"Pokémon Go" is available in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany - but not Japan.
While the entire Pokémon universe was invented by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995, and owned by The Pokémon Company, which is Japanese, "Pokémon Go" isn't officially released there. And people in Japan are not happy about it.
The reason for Japan's lack of access to the game is simple: While all the other Pokémon games are developed by Nintendo, a Japanese company, and released in Japan months before they're translated and released in the rest of the world, "Pokémon Go" was made by Niantic, an American one.
So, the game may have not been fully translated yet. And besides, the international rollout is going slowly because the game's servers frequently overload.
When a Niantic spokesperson asked Japanese fans to "wait a little bit more," people got mad. Here are some of the responses he got on Twitter, as translated and quoted by Kotaku:
There are ways to play "Pokémon Go" in countries where it's not released. Here's how to play it in the UK, for example. Your success rate may vary.