Japanese survey reveals many animators dissatisfied with the wages

2 months ago, the Asahi Shimbun reported wages in the anime industry aren't all that different from what the USA cartoon industry may have been said to pay in past decades:

A new government probe has exposed deep frustration among the artists who power Japan’s animation and film industries, where low pay and opaque business practices contribute to unstable working conditions.

An overwhelming 89.4 percent of film directors and staff, along with 52.1 percent of animators, said they were not satisfied with their current pay, according to a survey released on Dec. 24 by the Fair Trade Commission.

Many respondents complained that their compensation fell short of rising living costs and that the fees offered for their work were inherently low.

Some also reported that negotiations either failed to produce acceptable rates or were not available at all.

Yes, that's a shame, because for all we know, failure to pay well could one day lead to the downfall of the Japanese animation industry if they don't pay their employees as much as they're expected to produce. Even back in the USA, there's similar problems that have undoubtably come to head after so many years, and who knows, even that may bring down American animation one day, though let's not forget that, when any studio starts pushing leftist political propaganda into their cartoons, they can't be surprised if they don't do so well in the end, and as a result, the studios may not make enough money to continue paying their animators as well as they'd like. Yet depending how woke the animators are, it may not be easy to feel sorry for them if they don't make the fortunes they're hoping to accumulate.

For now, maybe Japanese studios should consider making an effort to raise the wages for their employees. And if video game producers suffer similar problems, maybe they should follow suit.