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If you remove the globes, and replace it with anime characters, you should get the picture!

As the economical recession takes a greater toll on Japan, Prime Minister Aso has something else planned, which he hopes will provide more jobs and hopefully reverse the effects of the recession. That’s right, an Anime Museum.

Prime Minister Aso has also long been associated as a manga geek rather than a Prime Minister.

According to reports, Aso has apparently set aside 11.7 billion yen in the recent proposed 2009 budget to construct an anime museum that is dedicated to exhibition of anime, manga, films and other forms of cultures. He believes that by exploiting the country’s “soft-power” — which includes animes, mangas and similar areas of culture — Japan could easily be on the path to recovery. This museum is expected to generate at least 500,000 jobs for Japan.

The museum is planned to attract 600,000 visitors to the proposed construction site at Tokyo’s artificial island of Odaiba.

However, even if the plan does sound feasible, there’s some that believes that this project is an utter waste of money.

Yukio Hatoyama of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan has criticized the plan, saying that “Aso likes animes” and therefore is trying to create his own bureaucracy for his interests. It is also added that the whole plan of the anime museum is “Simply put, it’s a national manga kissaten (café). Such an enormous waste is very foolish.”

Regardless of how the opposition party thinks, I doubt I really care anyway. I mean, who the heck doesn’t want an anime museum in Japan?!

Source: ANN.

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