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And no, it’s not Godzilla’s fault.
A recent Los Angeles Times article reports that Japan’s anime industry is in peril because production houses are trying to cut costs by sending animation jobs to South Korea, India and Vietnam – it’s easier and cheaper. And that is in the context of Japanese animators being paid very poorly – veteran animators in Japan typically make less than $50,000 annually, which falls short of the average annual Japanese household by around $10,000.
So as a consequence of the outsourcing done by the production houses and the low wages they pay the Japanese animators, the number of experienced anime artists is shrinking. And according to the trade group Japan Animation Creators Assn, the number of anime TV series being created in Japan has been cut by almost half since 2007.
“Japan risks losing its cultural icon, and part of the reason is because we are losing animators,” said Yasuki Hamano, media professor at the University of Tokyo.
I guess this is what happens when you expect art to be taken care of by companies. They end up milking the cow for everything it’s worth, but they never feed it.
Let’s hope the initiatives taken by Japanese government manage to protect this art form. It would be a shame to lose it.
via latimes
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