Connect Magazine Japan #92 April 2020

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Hannah Lysons (Gunma)

With more media becoming available onlin more streaming services springing up eve keeping up with English language enterta while living in a foreign country should be than ever before. However, some of u found geographic restrictions to be mor hindrance than expected. Whether that’s out that Crunchyroll is blocked in Japan, missing your favourite national television Many streaming services such as H BBC iPlayer are only accessible in their countries, and the recent announceme Netflix will finally be streaming the Studio films on their platform came bittersweet to living in Japan and North America. Wh rest of the world gets to indulge in the fa films that marked many of our childhoods of us living here in Japan will be left out. hope is not lost! VPNs are a simple an way to expand your entertainment option

If you’re scratching your head at yet a technological acronym, let me give you rundown on what a VPN is, why you have one, and what your options are.

Entertainment Without Borders: Hannah Lysons (Gunma) The Virtues of VPNs

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