Editorial

17:00 JST, October 7, 2024

Japanese manga and anime are highly acclaimed overseas, but it is hard to say that their foundations as a cultural industry are firmly in place. It is important to strengthen their international competitiveness and nurture them as a key industry.

The value of exports from the content industry, which includes manga, anime, movies and games, totaled ¥4.7 trillion in 2022, approaching the steel industry’s ¥5.1 trillion and the semiconductor industry’s ¥5.7 trillion.

This has also spurred overseas fans to come to Japan to make “pilgrimages” to places where stories are set and scenes were filmed.

The government has set a goal of increasing the value of exports from the content industry to ¥20 trillion by 2033. However, international competition is increasingly fierce with the rise of........

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