This page last updated: 01/03/06

I have received mail and questions from many people who are interested in working in the Japanese animation and manga industries so I have attempted here to create a resource that will hopefully be of some help. No such resource can ever be totally accurate or complete and I am not presenting this as an exhaustive study on working and living in Japan. I focus mostly on animation related subjects and try to touch on what I can. This is the sum of my knowledge about these subjects.

These pages are for people interested in working in the Japanese Animation (anime) industry. If you are interested in working in Japan but not in the anime industry then you may want to check out my Links section for sites with information about working and living in Japan.

Notes:

• I am not an agent for people who want to work in Japan. Please do not ask me to assist in helping you get a job in Japan. I cannot do it.
• The visa information is oriented towards US citizens. I don't know enough about the different relationships that Japan has with other countries to know what sort of immigration and legal hurdles someone might encounter. To my international readers, sorry but this is the best I can do. Please check with the Japanese consulate in your country about the visa situation there.
• All external links in these pages will open in new windows.
• Interested parties may want to read of my own adventures in trying to work in animation in Japan.

   I used to have a plain HTML version of this page but the structure has grown so complex and everybody can read frames now so this is it.