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"Distress" In Japan's Animation Industry Date: 2/25/2005 |
| The Japanese tabloid trade publication, the EIZO Shimbun which is released weekly on Mondays in Japan has recently devoted a large amount of coverage to the issue of an apparant crisis which may be facing the backbone of the anime industry there. Running with the headline "Nippon no anime seisaku genba no kyuujou" ("Distress on the site of the production of animation in Japan"), the paper published the first installment of a multi-part focus serial by Hiromi Ito on January 17th. The article came as the result of Ito-san's interactions at recent events including an informal social gathering of the animation industry movers and shakers outside the animation entrepreneur society, a Japanese actor's union departmental meeting, a joint struggle of the animated cartoon conference of meeting and an All-Japan Federation of Private Broadcasting Employees' Union meeting. What underlies the percieved crisis? According to the piece, 100 people or more agreed with misgivings in a shortage of skilled people in the animation field, with taxing of the industry's infrastructure by the foreign explosion in popularity, the ever sinking wage of the average production worker and finally an severe working environment. |
| Source: Anime News Service |
