We’ve all heard horror stories about just how little money rookie animators make in Japan (despite the high demand for their services). Now one lawyer has weighed about anime’s low wages in an opinion column that suggests the industry’s practices might not even be legal. …Read more »
Moo. It has been reported anime studio Asahi Productions have been farming out employees of their branch in Miyagi, Tohoku to… farms. The workers dispatched to farms were hired with funds from a government-sponsored post-2011 Great East Japan earthquake job creation project. From November 2012 …Read more »
A 26-year-old man in Kyoto was arrested for possession of an illegal fake ID card, it was reported January 6. His motive for owning the card: to attend more AKB48 handshake events. Part of the charm (read: marketing gimmick) of idol group AKB48 is the …Read more »
Matt Schley
