{"id":668,"date":"2026-02-17T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:57:32","slug":"breaking-paramount-plus-pulls-out-of-japan-and-amazon-prime-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/breaking-paramount-plus-pulls-out-of-japan-and-amazon-prime-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: PARAMOUNT PLUS PULLS OUT OF JAPAN AND AMAZON PRIME JAPAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>STAR TREK IS DEAD IN JAPAN<\/h1>\n<h2>UPDATE: PARAMOUNT PLUS LEAVING AMAZON PRIME ONLY<\/h2>\n<p>Paramount Plus will still apparently be available on three other services in Japan, including J:COM able customers, WOW-WOW subscribers, and NTT DoCoMo\u2019s streaming service. Skydance is apparently reshuffling things around. However, the STARFLEET ACADEMY effect may still be partially to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Original story below.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Plus, the online streaming service that\u2019s supposedly the \u201chome of Star Trek\u201d is pulling out of Japan\u2019s Amazon Prime!<\/p>\n<p>The following email has been sent to all subscribers, saying that Paramount Plus will no longer be available for Amazon Prime Japan customers as of March 31st of this year, 2026. Refunds will be issued.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the email in its entirety<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-669\" style=\"width: 156px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-669\" src=\"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0475-156x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0475-156x300.jpeg 156w, https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0475-532x1024.jpeg 532w, https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0475-768x1479.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0475-797x1536.jpeg 797w, https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0475-1063x2048.jpeg 1063w, https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0475.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actual Email from Amazon Prime Japan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paramount Plus has not been well received in Japan. With SpongeBob SquarePants beings the primary driving force, and most of that programming straightly available from Amazon Prime, offering the service that has reportedly had dismal ratings and atrocious user base no longer seems viable for the network.<\/p>\n<p>In January of 2026, Paramount allowed their final contract with Netflix to expire, removing all STAR TREK programming from Netflix internationally. Until that time, Netflix hosted all STAR TREK series, except for Alex Kurtzman-produced shows until the end of year, 2025. TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT were all available on Netflix Japan. When the Netflix contract ended and STAR TREK was taken off, Paramount Plus listed Japan as one of the international outlets that will be getting the complete STAR TREK series library.<\/p>\n<p>This was never the case as it never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>With the dismal performance of STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY, and no one rewatching the other shows, this seems to be the logical move. The latest episode of STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY featured an x-rated sex scene which did not win over fans, nor the Japanese as a whole. Thus, Paramount Plus probably won\u2019t be missed, as STARFLEET ACADEMY has lost its audience.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest episode of STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY featured an x-rated sex scene which did not win over fans, nor the Japanese as a whole. Thus, Paramount Plus probably won\u2019t be missed, as STARFLEET ACADEMY has lost its audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fleishmi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}