{"id":4310,"date":"2009-06-30T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2009-06-30T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:59:14","slug":"do-animated-tourist-guides-boost-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/do-animated-tourist-guides-boost-local-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Animated Tourist Guides Boost Local Economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTokyo-based animation studio FanWorks[J]<\/a>, which is well known for a famous title “Yawaraka Sensha ” or “Soft Wartank”, tied up with animators and TV broadcasters in Toyama<\/a> (a Honshu island’s prefecture facing the Sea of Japan), and launched a project to promote the prefecture’s sightseeing business by creating original animation titles[J\/E\/F\/C\/K]<\/a> which are intended for potential tourists living abroad, in association with Toyama-based animation studios, Berich[J]<\/a> and P.A. Works[J]<\/a>.
\nThe project is a part of the business boost plans which have been arranged by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)<\/a> and are aiming at cheering local economies.\u00a0\u00a0 The production partnership authored several animation titles featuring famous sightseeing spots in the prefecture.
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\nThe titles will be broadcast on LNTV[C]<\/a>, a public satellite TV broadcaster in Mainland China’s sister city for Toyama, as well as Toyama TV[J]<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Furthermore, the title’s Internet distribution is also available at YouTube[J]<\/a>, NicoNico Douga[J]<\/a> and Crunchyroll<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 (Crunchyroll videos are accessible only outside Japan due to international licensing limitations.)
\nAll the titles are available with subtitles in English, French, Mandarin Chinese and Korean.
\nVia Business Makoto[J]<\/a> and IT Media News[J]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tokyo-based animation studio FanWorks[J], which is well known for a famous title “Yawaraka Sensha ” or “Soft Wartank”, tied up with animators and TV broadcasters in Toyama (a Honshu island’s prefecture facing the Sea of Japan), and launched a project to promote the prefecture’s sightseeing business by creating original animation titles[J\/E\/F\/C\/K] which are intended for… Continue reading Do Animated Tourist Guides Boost Local Economy?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,24,32,36,38],"tags":[416,1146,2786,3781],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-news","category-society","category-trend","category-video","tag-berich","tag-fanworks","tag-p-a-works","tag-toyama","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}