Japan to boost aid for video games and anime as new pillar of growth

Visitors at the Tokyo Game Show 2025 held in the city of Chiba in September. The government has set a target of boosting annual overseas sales of Japanese content such as anime and video games to ¥20 trillion by 2033. The government will step up support for the overseas expansion of content industries such as video games and anime, while also investing more in related human resources development. Overseas sales of Japanese content reached around ¥5.8 trillion ($37.6 billion) in 2023, surpassing Japan's semiconductor exports. In 2025, global box-office revenue for the anime movie Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinity Castle -- Part 1: Akaza Returns topped ¥100 billion, marking the first time a Japanese movie has achieved this milestone.