Price under saihan seido.

"saihanbai kakaku iji seido" or shoter "saihan seido" is a name of system for sale six categories of copyrighted material: CDs, records, cassettes, books, magazines, and newspapers.

This system established in 1953, allows owners of copyrighted material to set the minimum retail price of newly released or re-released products, thus eliminating any possiblilty of discounting.

To indicate minimum price used two symbol:

• Ⓧ (letter X in circle, 24cd UNICODE, Ⓧ in HTML) - this mark on a music or print publication is used to indicate the last date at which the item must be sold at a fixed price under saihan seido, Japan's resale price maintenance system.
• Ⓨ (letter X in circle, 24ce UNICODE, Ⓨ in HTML) - this mark on a music or print publication is used to indicate the first date at which the item must be sold at a fixed price under saihan seido, Japan's resale price maintenance system.

See also:

• Resale price maintenance (at en.wikipadia.org)
• Saihan Seido - Japan's Resale Price Maintenance System
• Japanese typographic symbols (at en.wikipadia.org)