Charts — Oricon

Kenji refreshed the internal dashboard for the third time. His coffee, now lukewarm, sat forgotten beside a stack of physical store reports from Tower Records, HMV, and seven hundred other locations across the archipelago. The digital sales from iTunes Japan, Line Music, and AWA were supposed to auto-aggregate. Instead, they were doing something impossible.

Mrs. Saito listened in silence. When it ended, she said: "Call the night duty reporter at Nikkei. And Kenji?" oricon charts

"Show me," she said.

"Don't touch anything else."