Japan Economy Forum

[Kaniska]

Thank you for that honest, objective analysis, @Kaniska .

I think it is now upto the gov to increase this cooperation to another level...And to acheive that we need more people to people cultural interaction and invest in with the people from both nations...

I have some thoughts to improve India Japan engagement:

1- Japan is one of the few country who can easily expand its base and influence without any noise by any political parties of India.
2- Japan needs to think big if it really want an economic counter balance to China. India has resource, man power and potential to be invested with Japan's money and investment in a right way...So Japan should start investing in Infrastructure, Indian education system( Like an investment to get an return) and human capital. Like US and its IT work is benifitted by contribution from Indian companies where both India and US got benifitted, so simillar kind of model needs to be worked out where economically both to be in a win win situation.
3- Japan has scarcity of Land, So India should provide preferential treatment to Japan to attarct more Japan's investment in India...So Japan's gets return on investment and India's gets employment to its people..

These are some of the things that needs to be stepped up very fast in order for India and Japan to really increase their cooperation ...

 

[xunzi]

Hello my friend, good to see you here. ha ha ha

What up buddy, glad to see you. I love when talking with my Nihon friend! LOL

 

[Aepsilons]

What up buddy, glad to see you. I love when talking with my Nihon friend! LOL

LOL, oh xun zi, how you make me smile.

 

[senheiser]

So after watching some docus on Japanese Mangas and Animes and to go deeper into the subject i kind of realized why Japanese are much more advanced to the rest of the world when it comes to animation and comic production.
There is no deny that japan clearly is leading in this subject if you look around there are all kind of mangas and animes, probably as much as the whole world produced i would even say. Today no one is even producing animantion based on drawing art as americans moved to pixar animation like films and so on. While Japan is still producing not only for normal audience but even special things like Hentais they are still producing stuff for all kind of small audiences and niches.


To be honest its pretty simple why Japanese are much ahead if you see how the business works in both animantion and mangas. The reason is simply that Japanese draw their mangas black and white while westerners draw their comics in colors. This means that japanese draw much more and getting more and more experience in their drawing skill as they arent wasting all their time in coloring their drawings.

The following pictures show the output, its obviously that the japanese draw much more on average thats why comics are produced in a booklet and mangas in a book.

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Since most mangas are getting always an Anime adaption much more stuff is produced, more mangas are getting produced, more Animes, and more skill the japanese artists and animators are acquiring all the time.




its very sad how Russia wasnt able to catch up to japan as we originally invented Anime style

 

[qwerrty]

they are ahead. no doubt. i've seen few and like em a lot. NO.. NOT those little stupid gay looking kids running around with shupa powah type..


death note
one outs
steins;gate
initial D
golgo 13
planetes
btoom
ghost in the shell SAC
gun frontier
cowboy bebop

 

[Zero_wing]

That's a very good question, I, too, want to know.

@JayMandan , @Cossack25A1 , @Zero_wing , hey guys, do you happen to know how many Japanese Nissei are living in the Philippines? And maybe the estimated number of all Filipinos with Japanese ancestry? Thanks.

Their alot here sir

 

[Oldman1]

LOL! You are comparing an old Disney cartoon to some modern looking anime. I know what the anime looked like back in the 70s and 80s.

 

[Cossack25A1]

Whichever country wants to take a shot at the animation industry, I just hope that they will not take the option some Japanese authors chose too... by churning out stuff whose plot revolves around boobs, harem fan-service and "useless male leads" which is quite common in several contemporary anime shows.

 

[JayMandan]

If the government had a working website with population statistics then we would know. I grew up north east of Mindanao and have never met a Japanese there. Mostly with Chinese or Hispanic ancestry.

 

[Cossack25A1]

If the government had a working website with population statistics then we would know. I grew up north east of Mindanao and have never met a Japanese there. Mostly with Chinese or Hispanic ancestry.

It is really hard to determine the ancestry of a Filipino as we have been "interacting" with other nationalities for generations. As for Japanese-Filipinos living here, well after World War II, they hide their ancestry in fear of retribution though current generation of "Japinoys" are born from "Japayuki"

 

[Aepsilons]

TOKYO —

Sony said Wednesday that global sales of its newest PlayStation have surged past the 10 million mark in less than a year, a record for the Japanese electronics giant.

The PlayStation 4 console, released in November, has been a bright spot for the struggling firm, which launched a sweeping restructuring in a bid to claw its way back to profitability.

The release of the PS4 in the United States and other markets has helped to improve Sony’s fortunes after a disappointing response to the console’s predecessor, the PS3.

Nintendo’s Wii U, launched in late 2012, took more than a year to sell just under six million units.

“The responses we have received for the PS4 system’s unique gameplay experiences… along with its vast game portfolio, has been phenomenal,” Andrew House, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, said in a statement.

The PS4 is locked in a battle for dominance of the digital home entertainment market with Microsoft’s Xbox One and the Wii U at a time when consoles are under intense pressure to prove their worth in a world where many now play downloadable games on smartphones and tablets.

Sony launched the console in Japan in February, about four months after it debuted in the United States and well behind many other markets.

The company said it had wanted to give developers more time to exploit the potential of the console in the Japanese gaming market, where top-selling titles are often markedly different from popular offerings in the U.S. and Europe.

Software sales for the console have also been strong, with more than 30 million copies sold in retail stores globally and through digital downloads as of this week, the company said.

It added that there were plans to release a slate of major titles, including “Final Fantasy XV” and “Bloodborne,” while it was also adding new system features to expand players’ gaming experience.

Among the new functions was “Share Play”, which would allow users to play games with their friends as if they are in the same room, such as letting a player remotely take over another person’s controls to help them through tricky sections of a game.

Last month, Sony posted a quarterly profit that it attributed largely to strong demand for the PS4 and a sharp decline in the value of the yen.

Sony’s gaming division has emerged as a potential savior for the company, which is struggling to reinvent itself in the digital age, having been left in the dust by nimbler rivals including South Korea’s Samsung.

Sony PS4 sales surge past record 10 million mark ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

 

[That Guy]

The number is misleading. The 10 million number is shipped to retailers, not sold through to customers. PS4 is still somewhere between 8-9 million sold through to customers.

 

[dil_dil]

The number is misleading. The 10 million number is shipped to retailers, not sold through to customers. PS4 is still somewhere between 8-9 million sold through to customers.

Its sold through 10 million to consumers.

 

[Aepsilons]

 

[That Guy]

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