Japan's ODA to 'developing countries' can now be parsed as 'Overseas Distribution of Anime'. According to an Asahi article, ODA money can now be disbursed to buy airtime for Japanese anime such as Pokemon. As if consumerism weren't a strong enough engine pushing for it as well. In fact, after an exhaustive (and no doubt expensive) study, they conclude that a large percentage of foreign students of Japanese first developed their interest in Japan through anime. Well, duh, I could have told them that, and provided numbers to back it up too (from a study I conducted on my 2 classes at Illinois. . . )
Big boom in jobs for anime subtitlers/translators in the works?
(note: the article does note that Spanish and French-speaking areas of Latin America and Africa will be the primary targets of this 'anime foreign policy'. The US does not receive any ODA from Japan. It stands for 'Overseas Development Assistance'.)
(update: oh, there's an English version of the article as well.
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I think it's already happening . . .
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