日本でアニメーション制作を行うクリエイターの労働等に関する現状報告 (Status report on labour of creators producing animation in Japan; Association of Japanese Animations, 2025)
Source: https://aja.gr.jp/info/2444
Canonical URL kept as the AJA info URL that redirects to https://aja.gr.jp/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2b4128d2460ab71813e5b2813bbff4b6.pdf. The PDF text uses compatibility glyphs for many kanji (e.g. ⽇, ⼈); quotes reproduce the extracted text as is. The AJA 2025 industry report with market figures (アニメ産業レポート2025) is paid and was not read.
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"usefulness": "Four-page statement by the Association of Japanese Animations (日本動画協会) answering the UN Human Rights Council working-group findings of May 2024. Contains an estimated head-count table by job type (about 18,000 creators) with typical employment form and the unit in which each role is ordered and paid (per series, per episode, per scene, per cut, per drawing), plus a table of the laws that apply to employees and freelancers.",
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- [upstream_claim] AJA estimates just under 20,000 creators including animators, some employed by production companies and some freelancers working under commission (its table total is 1万8千人). · locator: 1. 日本のアニメーション制作のクリエイターの労働と法律 source
- [sourced_fact] AJA states that employees fall under labour law, freelancers under the Freelance Act (in force Nov 2024) and the Subcontract Act / Antimonopoly Act. · locator: 1. and footnote 4 table source
- [upstream_claim] The footnote table lists, per job type (監督, シナリオ, 演出, 絵コンテ, 作画監督, レイアウト, 原画, 動画検査, 動画, 色彩設計, 色指定, 仕上, 美術監督, 背景, 撮影監督, 撮影, 編集, プロデューサー, デスク, 制作進行), the usual employment form, the order/payment unit and an estimated headcount. · locator: 脚注 ＊1 table (アニメーション制作の人材の職種、就業形態、発注/報酬積算単位、人数) source
- [sourced_fact] AJA says it has produced a contract guidebook and contract template for appropriate subcontracting and distributes them. · locator: 4. クリエイターの知的財産権等に関する契約 source
- [upstream_claim] The paper rebuts the UN working-group claim of a 1.5 million yen first-year income by citing a 2022 survey average of 1.966 million yen for ages 20-24, and traces the UN figure to a Netflix Japan submission to the JFTC. · locator: 2. アニメーター等の収入 and 脚注 ＊5-6 source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
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