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Akihabara to host Tokyo International Anime Festival Oct 27-28

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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and The Association of Japanese Animations will hold the two-day Tokyo International Anime Festival 2011 Autumn: Anime Business Matching & Conference Oct 27-28 at Akihabara UDX in order to promote the timely dissemination of up-to-date anime business information inside and outside Japan. Admission is free.

Tokyo International Anime Festival 2011 Autumn will be the 2nd festival this year. As a venue for business matching, up-to-date domestic and international anime business information will be broadcast aiming at further revitalization of the Japanese anime industry. Twenty domestic and overseas companies made presentations last year and new anime works and the latest information from autumn to the end of year/beginning of the new year were introduced.

This year, organizers will be assembling up-to-date information on anime related services that support the rapidly spreading smartphones, on the potential of anime as a promising export industry for Japan and so on. The venue consists of an Exhibition zone where companies make presentations in their booths, a Presentation zone where information is passed on to the visitors and a Symposium zone where the latest themes in the industry are discussed. There will be business matching (business talks) and conferences (information exchange) to establish this annual festival as the anime event for the autumn. A panel discussion and seminar targeting the general public, students, etc, is also planned.

The Tokyo International Anime Festival 2011 Autumn is an official anime event and is part of one of the world’s largest integrative content events, CoFest (JAPAN International Content Festival 2011) that conveys to the world the attractions of the Japanese content industry. In October, TV programming schedules are re-organized and movies for the end of year/ beginning of the new year are advertised, so it is a good time for the anime industry to dispatch up-to-date information, besides there will be a series of content events such as the Digital Content EXPO and TIFFCOM2011.

The festival will link up with the Tokyo International Anime Fair, the world’s largest comprehensive anime event held annually at Tokyo Big Sight in March to broadcast information to overseas buyers.

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