To be a whistleblower in any country is pretty much courting a short life. The Russians just tend to be a bit more punctual with it.
As for the Japanese gaming industry, again my mind is divided. On the positive side, they know how to make a good epic game every now and again. Plus when it isn't as mainstream, it certainly generates a bit of appeal for being different. Negatively, it's hard to say who will survive the world of games coding and publishing. Many studios have come and gone, sometimes even on one make or break game that turned out to be a flop. No one is safe in general in my opinion.
It's a tragedy that Microprose (it made some of my favourite games back in the 90s) is gone, yet Codemasters (in my opinion, the generator of many crap racing games) is still in existence. The planet has no justice I swear.
