User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Animated Goodness/@comment-28288412-20160605012137/@comment-24573226-20160605230224

Which is why the companies in the West are actually owned by the companies in the East. Subsidiaries, parent companies, whatever you want to call them.

I said something similar on another thread... how the magazine that's releasing the RWBY manga is owned by a company called Shueisha, which also owns VizMedia in the west, which provides the translations. It's not really exporting because the rights are all in-house. For instance, Kodansha Comics wouldn't translate RWBY because they are a rival of VizMedia, owned by a rival of Shueisha.

There's even some coalition of Japanese publishers founded back in 2010 (I think, I'd have to look it up, it might be earlier than that) whose purpose is to crackdown and prevent "scanlations."