AnimeJapan is a Japanese anime consumer show held annually at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center in Tokyo since March 2014. It was created from the merger of the Tokyo International Anime Fair with the Anime Contents Expo .
6-533: It is organized by the AnimeJapan Executive Committee with support from The Association of Japanese Animations and The Association of Manga Publishers. The 2020 AnimeJapan event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the event the following year took place online. The event returned to Tokyo Big Sight in 2022. In 2023, the event re-adopted a split format for the first time since 2019, in which
12-515: Is an industry group consisting of 52 affiliate animation production companies. AJA's scope of duties are to work on various issues concerning the Japanese animation industry, which most members are a part of. Most of AJA's members are small to medium-sized companies, hence the need for AJA to unite together to overcome some of the bigger problems, such as infringement of intellectual properties, rampant piracy and illegal file sharing has risen following
18-604: The Tokyo International Anime Fair . Since April 2014, the AJA took leadership of Young Animator Training Project ( 若手アニメーター育成プロジェクト , Wakate Animētā Ikusei Purojekuto ) an annual project first launched in 2010 by the Japanese Animation Creators Association and funded by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs in order to support training animators. The project features
24-510: The United States dropped to 4th place. In 2019, the United States placed first as Canada placed second in contracts. AJA also organises events to promote the work of their members to the major distributor of licenses of other regions, R1 (US), R3 (SEA), R2 (UK), R4 (Aus) and so on, in bid to promote Japanese animation to the world. One of their events is the biggest anime related event in Japan,
30-476: The first two days of the show are open to the public (deemed "Public Days") and the final two are "Business Days" limited toward those in the anime industry. The AnimeJapan Executive Committee is made up of the following 19 companies: This anime convention–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Association of Japanese Animations The Association of Japanese Animations ( AJA ; 日本動画協会 , Nippon Douga Kyoukai )
36-440: The introduction and widespread adoption of P2P networking software. Besides the aforementioned, AJA also serves to resolve conflicts, and provide improvements of the general production environment, talents and oversea operations. AJA also releases annual reports on the anime industry. According to the 2017 report, overseas markets expanded 1.5 times the previous year to a record high. In terms of contracts, China placed first while
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