Go, Read: Fumihiko Yamada Interview

This interview at ActuaBD with Fumihiko Yamada, a cultural attache in the Japanese embassy in Paris, proves generally interesting, and a couple of specific points of appeal for me. One, Yamada puts France as the fourth leading market for manga exports, behind Korea, Taiwan and the US, and ahead of China. I have no idea how accurate that count is, what it means, or how it's tabulated, but the order seems worth noting. Two, Yamada makes a point about the importance of manga as a cultural and commercial export where I think he's basically saying that one of the reasons the Japanese government has been able to take an interest is because you have a generation of politicians that grew up with comics, in a market that resembles the current one. In other words, there's a comfort level there that probably didn't exist with the previous generation.

For another view of the same approximate nature, this article suggests that the much smaller but still growing export of Korean comics has its own unique breakdown by percentage of whole, with Europe overall coming in first.

thanks, Ammar Abboud
 
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