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Japan’s anime industry in crisis even as its popularity soars ANNECY - Japan’s booming animation industry is in crisis -- with low pay, long hours and a huge shortage of artists -- just as its global popularity has never been higher. Three of the 10 feature films in the running for top prize at the world’s most important animation festival in Annecy in France -- which ends Saturday -- are from Japan. The country is the only real challenger to Hollywood’s dominance of the labour-intensive genre. But just as Japanese anime seemed to be threatening to loosen Pixar and Disney’s grip on the popular imagination with the likes of the teen mega hit “Your Name” and a Nintendo Super Mario movie in the pipeline, long-running structural problems are in danger of sapping its rise. With talk of a talent shortage, its greatest star, the legendary Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki, has come out of retirement at 78 to make “How Do You Live?” -- which may be released next year -- with speculation that he could take on another feature if his health holds. Miyazaki blazed an arthouse trail with such animated classics as the Oscar-winning “Spirited Away”, “Howl’s Moving Castle” and the
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fabulous “My Neighbour Totoro”. - Creative burn-out But Yoshiaki Nishimura, a former Miyazaki stalwart who produced the Oscar-nominated “The Tale of The Princess Kaguya”, told AFP that the industry was struggling to “face up to a lack of animators, bad working conditions and perhaps a lack of creativity”. His peers also complain of low pay, a paucity of emerging young talent and burn-out in overworked animation teams who often put in 12- to 18-hour days. Rising star Keiichi Hara, who showed his new film “The Wonderland” at Annecy after winning the jury prize there four years ago with “Miss Hokusai”, feared for the future. “Perhaps the biggest problem in the Japanese animation industry is that there are no more young animators,” he warned. Ayumu Watanabe -- whose beautiful “The Children of the Sea” was shown out of competition at the festival -- worried about visual “standardisation” and lack of originality, not helped by the fact that “fewer and fewer animators can draw well by hand.” (afp)
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The Richard Rodgers Theatre is seen on June 6, 2019 located on 226 West 46th Street where “Hamilton”, one of Broadway’s biggest hits, is playing in New York.
After conquering Broadway, ‘Hamilton’ eyes global tour
NEW YORK - After triumphing on Broadway, the lower 48 states and London’s West End, “Hamilton” is eyeing its first non-English production as well as tours throughout Europe and Asia.
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Japan’s booming animation industry is in crisis -- with low pay, long hours and a huge shortage of artists -- just as its global popularity has never been higher.
The much-decorated musical, currently being staged nightly in London and New York as well as four other US cities, last month announced plans to launch in Sydney in early 2021 in a production expected to tour Australia before going to Asia, its producer said in an interview. The “Hamilton” team is also working with a German hip-hop artist and playwright to develop a German-language version of the
work. The show, which is performed by a mostly non-white cast and mixes pulsating rap numbers with ballads and traditional musical numbers, has been credited with invigorating Broadway, thrilling audiences of all ages and across the political spectrum. Producer Jeffrey Seller told AFP he sees a lot of international interest in the show. Australians frequently stream its soundtrack, Germany has
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long been receptive to American musicals and a Mexico City show, perhaps in Spanish, is also a possibility. “My hope is that our story is resonant to people all over the world as a story of revolution, as a story of ambition, as a story of self-realization,” said Seller, who has been called the “CEO of Hamilton Inc.” “I think Alexander Hamilton’s journey is universal.” (afp)
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This file photo taken on October 26, 2010 shows the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, 1200 Kms south of Tehran.
Iran builds pressure, sets date to surpass uranium stockpile limit
TEHRAN - Iran said Monday it will surpass from June 27 its uranium stockpile limit set under the nuclear deal with world powers, turning up the pressure after the US walked away from the landmark pact last year. “Today the countdown to pass the 300 kilogrammes reserve of enriched uranium has started and in 10 days time... we will pass this limit,” Iran’s atomic energy organisation spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told a new conference broadcast live on state television. The move “will be reversed once other parties live up to their commitments,” he added, speaking from the Arak nuclear plant southwest of Tehran. On May 8, President Hassan Rouhani announced that Iran would
stop observing restrictions on its stocks of enriched uranium and heavy water agreed under the 2015 nuclear deal. He said the move was in retaliation for the unilateral US withdrawal from the accord a year earlier, which saw Washington impose tough economic sanctions on Tehran. Tensions between Iran and the United States have escalated ever since, with Washington bolstering its military presence in the region and blacklisting Iran’s Revolution-
ary Guards as a terrorist organisation. The US has also blamed Iran for last week’s attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, a charge Tehran has denied as “baseless”. Iran has threatened to go even further in scaling down nuclear commitments by July 8 unless remaining partners to the deal -Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia -- help it circumvent US sanctions and especially enable it to sell its oil. “The current situation is sensitive” and there is still time for the deal’s partners to save this agreement, Rouhani told the French ambassador to Tehran Philippe Thiebaud on Monday.
“The collapse of the JCPOA is undoubtedly not in the interest of Iran... the region and the world,” he added.
- ‘Save the deal’ Under the agreement, Iran pledged to reduce its nuclear capacities for several years and allow international inspectors inside the country to monitor its activities in return for relief from international sanctions. The deal set a limit on the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges, and restricted its right to enrich uranium to no higher than 3.67 percent, well below weaponsgrade levels of around 90 percent. It also called on Iran to export
enriched uranium and heavy water to ensure that the country’s reserves would stay within the production ceiling set by the agreement, yet recent US restrictions have made such exports virtually impossible. According to Rouhani, the ultimatum he issued last month was intended to “save the (deal), not destroy it”. Continued to page 6
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