Comment by philistine
4 years ago
Subtitles have copyright. Therefore, subtitles need to be licensed. Licensing is a shitshow, ergo Netflix does not have a license for EN subtitles in Japan, and does not care enough about its experience to reproduce English subtitles.
In many cases the licensees would actually prefer to not have foreign language options available at all, because it naturally geoblocks the content.
That's fine with them. I'll continue to pirate it.