Rental is often as a sales method of music sheet in Japan, but it is difficult to hire from abroad for many Japanese. (It seems not too difficult for the professional bands and music college band). For mainly amateur band, there is a wall of language, they might feel uneasy. There is also a possibility that they're unable to accurately understand the rental conditions.
Has carried out a publication on your own, you really want a success in Japan, trying to make whether Japanese corporation or find Japanese agency. In particular, in the case of rental, it is better to think that there is no direct orders from Japan to your selg-publishing.
Actually publishers have been successful with the Japanese agency would Osti Music (John Mackey). Japanese agency is BRAIN MUSIC. BRAIN MUSIC is publisher that also performs recordings, CD production and DVD production. Their number of rental musical score is probably the most common in Japan. But even McKee, is not have BRAIN MUSIC make CD of his works for the Japanese market. Do carefully the selection of the agency and negotiation with them. Don't be impatient. It still seems to me to do the large agency of rental music in Japanese publisher is BRAIN MUSIC. There is the value of the consideration.
BRAIN MUSIC's English page >> (http://www.brain-music.com/en/index.html)
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Besides, there are some Japanese publishers are doing agency of the overseas publisher like "Winds Score" (agency of Metropolis Music) , "Foster Music" (agency of Baton Music) etc. In a retail store, "Musicstore.JP" is the agency of Storm Works.
It would be also good to consult with a number of Japanese publishers they are dealing with rental scores of Japanese composer. For example, "CAFUA Records" and "Teeda Publishing" seems to have stretched the performance in the rental score.
I think that retailers and publishers who deal if "sell" scores often. In addition to the above-mentioned company, such as "Rocket music" and "Music Eight" are dealing also aggressively "sell" scores overseas.
However, in either case the sell or rental, the Japanese agency is just a distribution outlet in Japan. You can not be expected as the promoter. Promotion on your own is a must as I said in the previous article. It is important to find a publisher that can be agreed on satisfactory terms without hurry.
Or, if Japanese customer can order from your site, also it might be better to make a Japanese page. However in that case, eventually Japanese customer may need to communicate with a language other than Japanese. You must be careful so that there are no misunderstandings and lack of understanding.
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