Nintendo is not accepting submissions from Japanese indie devs

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Soundwave said:

Nintendo has different policies to Japanese development. It's part of the hiring culture there I think, they frown upon the idea of someone in Japan making a game in their garage (err, bedroom?).

They prefer the "studio system". My guess is they want to force Japanese development talent to have to apply to one of the "made" Japanese companies and not encourage would be designers/devs in Japan to make games on their own.

Didn't they change that recently where Japanese devs can now make their games from their address?  I'm sure I saw that somewhere.  I think this issue may be different.