"国連、日本アニメは「労働搾取」　ネットフリックスなどから排除も 低賃金や過重労働、制作現場の労働「搾取」" 18 October 2024

[Unofficial description by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

The government held the first meeting of the Public-Private Council on the Content Industry, the first public-private organisation has been founded to oversee Japan’s content industry. At the meeting, then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, "In the field of content production, the environment in which creators can work with peace of mind has not yet been established in terms of the working environment and payment of wages"...

The report [published by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights on 28 May] pointed out that animators face low wages, excessively long working hours, unfair contractual relationships, and contracts that do not protect the intellectual property rights of creators, concluding that "an environment has been created in which they are vulnerable to exploitation"...

If Japanese anime is deemed to be a work that violates human rights, it could lead to a boycott by overseas video streaming companies such as Netflix as well as overseas consumers who are highly conscious of human rights...