The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is a radical faction. What role do bureaucrats play in restarting Cool Japan (Part 2) Juno Nakayama's "Oshi and Otaku are Global" No. 125

In July 2024, a new section called the "Cultural and Creative Industries Division" was established in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. For more than 10 years, the Content Division, which supports the industry, and the Cool Japan Policy Division, which supports CJ Organization, have supported the entertainment industry on different axes, but in response to movements such as Keidanren's "Entertainment Contents ∞ 2023" and the Kishida administration's "26th Conference on the Realization of New Capitalism" (April 2024), the content industry was addressed....