Quote Originally Posted by kyuven View Post
This isn't exclusive to SE, though. A lot of Japanese companies simply don't consider PayPal to be worth dealing with for one reason or another. I have no idea why and it was kind of a perplexing thing while I was living there.
It could be because Paypal won't accept funds from a Japanese bank account. At least, they didn't when I tried to make a Japanese account while I was there.