Danica Davidson
April 16, 2025 
How would you like to take a course on anime in a college or vocational school? That’s one of the many ideas being pushed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, a section of the Japanese government.
Right now Japanese content (which includes anime, manga, movies, music, etc) is worth about 5.8 trillion yen (approximately $40,760,248,896) outside of Japan. The Public-Private Council on the Content Industry, which is part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, aims to bring up that number to 20 trillion yen (about $140,568,388,200) by 2033. And it’s shared some of its ideas for this major undertaking.
For starters, the Agency for Cultural Affairs is interested in launching some new initiatives, like the Industry-Academic Collaborative Anime Human Resources Training Committee.
There’s not a set date for this committee (which might end up with a different title) to debut, but it should be sometime within the fiscal year. It wants to help people learn things like directing, editing, sound engineering, and storyboarding, coming up with a set of guidelines for them. It is interested in having studios and schools use these guidelines.
In the plan to get more anime out there internationally, the agency wants to set up a program to teach people about intellectual property management. They also want to implement a program on foreign language communications for the same reason.
In addition, they are interested in an anime preservation society. They want to work with studios on this, and will concentrate both on mending old, damaged footage, and taking good care of newer footage and preserving its condition.
The Japanese government was previously behind the Cool Japan initiative, wanting to get people around the world more interested in Japan. That was not particularly successful, so this is a new angle that’s basically aiming to do the same thing that Cool Japan wanted to do.
Source: SoraNews24
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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