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"Hollowing Out" of Japan's Anime Industry

posted on 2006-12-26 20:08 EST by Christopher Macdonald

Mutant Frog Travelogue has posted a translation of an article from the Japanese weekly business magazine Shukan Toyo Keizai, by Ryota Fujitsu, about the effects of outsourcing of production on the anime industry

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