As reported by Yomiuri Shimbun on June 23, the Japanese government has begun preparations to establish a support organization that would serve as the central pillar for promoting the domestic content industry overseas. The government plans to invest a total of 34 trillion yen in both public and private sectors by the end of 2033, aiming to position the content industry as the core of its 17 strategic fields.
Japanese anime, manga and video games have significantly gained on popularity in recent years, and in the FY 2024, overseas sales of Japanese content reached 6.1 trillion yen. The government views the industry as key for Japan’s economic success, and its goal is to expand the overseas market size for domestic content to 20 trillion yen by 2033. Recently, different government bodies and related organizations, like the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), have been individually making moves towards achieving this move. For example, in October last year the METI rolled out a new set of policies for supporting domestic creators and the expansion of their IPs to the West.
However, according to Yomiuri Shimbun, METI and the Agency for Cultural Affairs have been criticized in Japan for their inefficiency, which is what led the government to consider creating a centralized organization for supporting Japanese content overseas.
Apparently, the new organization will be drawing on the model of Korea’s KOCCA (Korea Creative Content Agency), which serves as the central coordinating body that handles the country’s content industry, and has seen massive success in the global expansion of K-pop. It will aim to strengthen international market strategies, build distribution networks necessary for overseas expansions, invest in human resources and support the production of large-scale works.
While Japan has doubled its financial support for the content industry year-on-year, reaching approximately 58.9 billion yen, Yomiuri Shimbun argues that it still isn’t able to compare to investments of its competitors like South Korea and China. Back in 2023, South Korea invested about 76.2 billion yen into its content industry, while in 2024, China made a 128.3-billion-yen investment.
Moving forward, the Japanese government plans to announce a massive series of medium-to-long-term investments, especially for the private sector. The new strategy, set to be determined this summer, will include public and private investments estimated to reach around 24.5 trillion yen for the video game industry, 3.3 trillion yen for the anime industry, 1.6 trillion yen for the manga industry and 3 trillion yen for the music industry by fiscal year 2033. Similarly, the government expects the economic ripple effects related to Japan’s content industry to reach a total of 326 trillion yen by the end of the same year.
Talk about being about 15-18 years too late when it was popping off across the world. Everyone is going to forget how they gatekept all of it which is hilarious because they’ve just now realized the could have made a killing off of global sales. Absolute morons.
You’re not smarter than them either. It’s not like Japanese gov is suddenly out of the cave and push their entertainment industry just this year. They have tried similar initiave Cool Japan back in 2010s, yet it was horribly failed due to mismanagement of the funding and other issue. So, this is their 2nd attempt to facilitate their industry and prevent their previous mistakes
Kind of funny how they sign deals with a piracy website that stole their content back in like 2008 – 2006. They could have gone the whole nuclear legal route. Instead they sign contracts with crunchyroll, now that crunchyroll has been bought out several times and the original soul of crunchyroll is gone, they now know it was a mistake because their culture is being mistranslated on purpose by Sony and Sony’s a Japanese company so they’re being literally screwed by their own people which makes this an extra hilarious situation.
Once the government gets involved they control. Depending on who controls the government, it could ruin anime and manga. Guaranteed a left wing, “progressive,” government will crush it under their boots. DEI alone will kill it. You can’t have your own culture, views and ideas.
I dont have an idea what you’re talking about.It doesn’t make sense at all. There’s no such left thing in Japan, especially the country is currently being led by HAWKISH right wing administration.
Anime nowadays are infected with bunch of Isekai slops every season. Those are originally from by Narou-kei indie authors yet all they did just copying each other works. Not to mention, each season is already overcapacity with >50 titles yet most of them are just capped to only 1 season/cour. So, at this point, government regulation is expected to curb these issues. The industry need pressure to evaluate their own operational flow
Scum like yourself ironically contribute to the problem instead of eliminate the problem, and ditto for the idiot that you were arguing against in your post as well.
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So i come from a Time when i had to search for VHS Tapes, then DVDs of Anime in the most Random places…..I agree Sony is Messing it up badly…..They seem to forget that this is Japan’s Culture but keep trying to Westernize it almost like a Saturday Morning Cartoon. Can’t stand the fact that all the Good Content has been pulled in Favor of More Beyblade, Poketrash type of Content. But again, I watch GenoCyber and Love it….Miss it really because we in America Can’t have anything not suited to a Bunch of Chatroom Experts who think Sanji’s Girl Obsession is Offensive. Sorry but thats his Trope and im good with it. They need to just Make the Anime that fit thier Culture and whoever doesnt like it can eat a D!k But they might like that as well. I hate the way the planet is going. To many opinions for the same shit in the end we will have a lame Anime show thats basically Govt Ran and nothing like the good days. IMO
Here is the thing, the cartoons/Western manga were not exactly as family friendly as well, as a lot of political agendas always seeped through them as well. Moreover, the Japanese people consider ALL animation as anime, and you are a delusional, elitist, and weeb, hypocrite if you say otherwise on the matter.
You know what’s funny? If they just invested in more English translators for all their Anime products, we could just import things directly from them with tou ever need to give money to middle man’s who inject woke localizations nobody asked for and butchered content… 😅