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This October, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) held its 8th Entertainment and Creative Industrial Policy Seminar, during which it proposed five key principles of its new policy guidelines for the Japanese content industry, including video games, anime, manga, film and music. As reported by Otaku Soken, the new guidelines have been announced as part of the strategy to achieve the government’s goal of expanding the overseas market size for domestic content to 20 trillion yen by 2033. This comes only a month after the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) issued an “urgent message” calling on the government to provide immediate large-scale and long-term support for the country’s content industry.
The “Five key principles of the Entertainment and Creative Industries Policy” are listed as follows:
1 Large-scale, long-term strategic support
2 Support efforts to spread Japan-made content to the world
3 No interference in the content of creative works
4 Provide direct support
5 Prioritize those willing to take a challenge
In light of recent events – especially aggressive content restrictions and global pressure from payment processing firms – the third principle of the policy has been attracting attention in particular.
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Personally I think #3 is a major win, I'm really tired of Western agendas trying to change creative works.
Don't get me wrong, personally I think that in general people pushing agendas and idealogies have good intentions, in other words, they believe their agendas will improve things. So this is not an American politics one side is good and the other is bad jab kind of thing.
For me, I think this is a win because for better or worse I appreciate playing games and seeing stories from other places such as Japan because they are different and unique. And TBH recently Globalization has made it to where everyone wants everyone else in the world to get on the same page and push the same things.
So I think this is the correct approach and in terms of FFXIV I hope we see less things like rubber bullets. Which are simply out of place in the game.
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I also wonder if this is related to SE moving more towards Japan again, which I think is a good thing as well.
When I see the Square branding I want Japanese uniqueness in their games. Not a global conglomerate product with no personality.
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This October, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) held its 8th Entertainment and Creative Industrial Policy Seminar, during which it proposed five key principles of its new policy guidelines for the Japanese content industry, including video games, anime, manga, film and music. As reported by Otaku Soken, the new guidelines have been announced as part of the strategy to achieve the government’s goal of expanding the overseas market size for domestic content to 20 trillion yen by 2033. This comes only a month after the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) issued an “urgent message” calling on the government to provide immediate large-scale and long-term support for the country’s content industry.
The “Five key principles of the Entertainment and Creative Industries Policy” are listed as follows:
1 Large-scale, long-term strategic support
2 Support efforts to spread Japan-made content to the world
3 No interference in the content of creative works
4 Provide direct support
5 Prioritize those willing to take a challenge
In light of recent events – especially aggressive content restrictions and global pressure from payment processing firms – the third principle of the policy has been attracting attention in particular.
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Personally I think #3 is a major win, I'm really tired of Western agendas trying to change creative works.
Don't get me wrong, personally I think that in general people pushing agendas and idealogies have good intentions, in other words, they believe their agendas will improve things. So this is not an American politics one side is good and the other is bad jab kind of thing.
For me, I think this is a win because for better or worse I appreciate playing games and seeing stories from other places such as Japan because they are different and unique. And TBH recently Globalization has made it to where everyone wants everyone else in the world to get on the same page and push the same things.
So I think this is the correct approach and in terms of FFXIV I hope we see less things like rubber bullets. Which are simply out of place in the game.
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I also wonder if this is related to SE moving more towards Japan again, which I think is a good thing as well.
When I see the Square branding I want Japanese uniqueness in their games. Not a global conglomerate product with no personality.
Continue reading...