Why is it so common with Flash on Japanese websites?

[Keiko1981]

How come it's so popular on Japanese websites?
Is it that it that it looks good, or out of security?

A number of sites
Musicans
http://gackt.com/
http://www.direngrey.co.jp/top.html
http://www.pscompany.co.jp/
TV
http://nhk.co.jp/
http://www.tbs.co.jp/ Not have that much
Other
http://www.sanrio.co.jp/index.html
http://www.toyota.co.jp/

[Cry5tal]

It's not only Japanese websites, a lot of sites are flashbased now. I won't go into details but there are a lot of pros and cons.

[Syobon]

Flash is not praised for the security, its one of the biggest security hole in a system (plenty of exploit available), its so used because its very easy to code.

[ik0n]

Flash is not praised for the security, its one of the biggest security hole in a system (plenty of exploit available), its so used because its very easy to code.

Correct, hate flash. =/