What set out to be a routine start-up panel session at this week’s ConnecTechAsia ended up bringing to the fore a serious industry issue that has been overshadowed by 2020’s global crisis. Unbeknown to many, Japan is just emerging from a data calamity. Much has been written about the combined efforts of major broadcasters, pooling resources to create OTT video platforms from the ground up to avoid being hammered into submission by the SVoD big guns. Little did we know, a similar revolt was being fronted by broadcasters in Japan, as Tokyo’s five major broadcasters created an AVoD initiative called TVer, growing to a healthy 25 million downloads – until disaster struck. Japan has been the subject of a number…