Anime Anime Japan symposium held on March 27th, Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008,
Title: “The Anime industry of North America and Anime Fans”
Location; Theater I, Tokyo big Site
Time schedule: PM2:30 – PM4:00
Panelists:
Mr.Christopher Macdonald,
　　（Anime News Network Editor in Chief, Protoculture Addicts Publisher.）
Mr.Ed Chavez,
　　（Freelance-Journalist, Editor）
Mr.Sean Chiochankitmun
　　（Convention Chairman, Otakon 2008）
Mr.Jim Vowles, Jr.
　　（Guests, Industry, and Press Relations Chief, […]

The Tokyo International Anime Fair (known as “TAF”) is the world’s largest anime exhibition. Held every spring at Tokyo Big Sight, the exhibition features a “trade fair” with booth exhibits by anime-related companies, “events” including spectacular stage performances and theater movie showings/displays, and the “Tokyo Anime Awards” in which outstanding anime works are presented with […]

By Tadashi Sudo
The official name of the anime related event which will be held this autumn as a part of “JAPAN International Contents Festival (CoFesta)” is announced to be “Japan Animation Contents Meeting 2007 (JAM)”. “CoFesta” is an all-round event of entertainment contents such as game, anime, comics, music, broadcast, movie, etc. held by the […]

By Tadashi Sudo
JASRAC, an association which manages music copyrights and usage fees, has presented “Howl’s Moving Castle BGM” a JASRAC Grand Prize. JASRAC awards are given every year to the top 3 most used domestic works, and the works are given gold (grand prize), silver, and bronze awards. This year, Anime “Howl’s Moving Castle” which […]

The working committee for National Comprehensive Animation Cultural Knowledge Certificate Examination (so called Anime Kentei) announced the program planed on March 22nd at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007. “Anime Kentei” aims to develop animation industry and culture as the certificate examination. The examination includes animation culture/industry knowledge of domestic and overseas. It is expected that […]

Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007 finished its business days and made a new record 24,354 visitors in these two days. This result impresses the expansion in both size and visibility of the fair.
On the second day, it had 12,831 guests, more than the first day and exceeds last year record by 10%. The number of […]