Finally the National☆Center for Media☆Arts!

July 3, 2009 in Codex, Japan, Sengoku Basara
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Manga Cafe, Manga Diplomacy, National Center for Media Arts, Noble Art, Otakuism, Sengoku Basara, Soft Power, Tamotsu Aoki, Taro Aso, Yasuki Hamano, Yukio Hatoyama

National Center for Media Arts

The committee’s plan will build on an earlier report, issued in April, that announced that the new institution will engage in the research, collection and display of manga comics, “anime” animation, video games and digital art.

The agency hopes to start construction of the center, probably in the Odaiba district, by the end of the current fiscal year and open it to the public as early as 2011.
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In two hours of discussions, members said the new facility should engage in the digital preservation of manga, provide a venue for young manga and anime artists to show their work and act as a showroom where visitors from abroad could see the best media art Japan has to offer.

Agency moves on ‘manga cafe’, Japan Times, Friday, July 3, 2009