Playing Poker in Japan? Is It a Thing?

I did a poker stream recently as well, where I got invited to play POCA with a bunch of jazz people who I just only kind of briefly spoke to once. They were using the stream three cinema cameras to stream that insane. This one, I met these people on a stream and one of them is like a professional poker player in Japan. Is that a thing in Japan? So recreational poker is really big here. If you want to play- You want to pay in. And yeah, you can't like win money necessarily. Yeah. A lot of people- It's just for fun. There's two foreign countries to compete. We'll go across America, just playing poker