An Interim Report Compiled by the Creative Industries Internationalization Committee
An Interim Report Compiled by the Creative Industries Internationalization Committee
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创意产业国际化委员会编制的中期报告
DOI:
10.1080/09548963.2015.1031488
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发表时间:
2015
期刊:
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Christian
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作者:
Morgner;Christian
The Interim Report of the Creative Industries Internationalisation Committee (hereafter the Report) is, to date, the most detailed, governmental account of the creative industries and related policies in Japan. Furthermore, the Report is published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and not by the Agency for Cultural Affairs or the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Discussions on creative or cultural industries are most often associated with the UK, including a number of high-profile policy incentives and programmes (eg Cool Britannia). Therefore, it might be helpful to introduce the reader to developments in Japan before discussing the Report.Cultural economic activities (music industry, film and cinema, anime, art and theatre) and what is labelled as Contemporary Japanese Culture became increasingly important in the late 1950s. As a consequence, the Agency of Cultural Affairs was made independent from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the late 1960s. Due to the involvement of the Japanese state in the Second World War and its intervention into areas of culture, such a move was seen as postwar development (similar to Germany who has no official Ministry of Culture). This agency became the main governmental driver of cultural policies in Japan and focused mainly on traditional art associations, called IEMOTO (tea ceremonies, pottery, flower arrangements, calligraphy, etc.), or sought to legitimise the importation of classic art from Europe (eg Italian and French paintings). Thus, the Japanese cultural market has remained highly self-sufficient for a long time (Kawasaki, 1996). However, the Japanese bubble economy burst in the early 1990s, which had a severe effect on the cultural and arts economy (Hiraki, Akitoshi, Spieth, & Takezawa, 2009). In 2003, the first attempt was made to copy classifications of creative industries developed in the UK and use them for a secondary analysis of market data in Japan (Yoshimoto, 2003, 2009). The classifications used in the Report not only demonstrate the capacity of the cultural industries in Japan, but also show the need to develop categories thatfit the Japanese market. In 2010, the creative industries gained official recognition with the foundation of the Creative Industries Promotion Office under the Manufacturing Industries Bureau. This office identified that Japan’s cultural industries would play an important role in the government’s ‘New Growth Strategy’under the single and long-term concept of ‘Cool Japan’(Cool Japan Advisory Council, 2011). This concept involved the implementation of inter-ministerial activity intended to cultivate overseas markets and to disseminate relevant information abroad by hosting international events. The Report reviewed here is formulated in the context of the desired internationalisation of Japan’s creative industries and is intended to support the formulation of related policies. However, as stated in the Report:“there is no specific definition of ‘creative industries’ in