Anime News

High Level Asian Contents Meeting
Date: 10/30/2005
At a recent large conference on contents held in Tokyo, several Asian nations have coordinated on cooporation related to business on animation, games and film production. The ministerial-level talk "Asian Contents Industrial Seminar" took place on the 27th where the association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, South Korea, India and Japan via Trade / Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa participated. The importance of the film and animation industries of various Asian nations has been recognized as exceeding borders and this has now been recognized and addressed at a political level. The aim is to expand the market via cooperation of each country. In the meeting, a joint statement on co- promotion, co- production and personnel training exchange was adopted.
Source: Anime News Service