It’s possible that an anime museum may be built in Japan on the Tokyo island of Odaiba at a cost of 11.7 billion yen ($118 million US Dollars), reports The Anime News Network. This is apparently something that the Japanese government is currently considering, and a museum to showcase anime, manga, and other such forms of Japanese culture may well be built in the future.
Prime Minister Taro Aso would like the museum to be built, and despite the initial cost of building the museum, feels that the jobs the museum would create could ultimately help reverse the economic downturn.
Taro Aso has been a manga fan ever since childhood, and would obviously love for the building to be built. There is opposition to Aso’s plans though, and as such a massive amount of government money would need to be invested in order for the museum to be built; it’s entirely understandable that not everyone feels that building this museum would be a particularly good idea.
Fans of anime from all around the world would no doubt travel to Tokyo in order to visit the museum, and in the long term Japan would no doubt profit from it; is right now really the best time to build the museum though? That’s something that the Japanese government really has to decide, and it’ll be interesting to see what decision they do ultimately come to.
UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
