Goals
The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) is the industry group, mainly consisted of animation productions companies, established along with the lunch of the intermediate corporation system in Japan in April 2002, and as of January 2007, 52 companies are affiliated with the AJA. AJA works on various issues surrounding the animation industry in which most members are small to medium sized enterprises. Nowadays the industry seriously concern the infringement of intellectual properties including the problem of pirates and illegal file exchanges on the Internet, which has become known with P2P. Besides, there are many other problems that AJA should tackle such as improvement of production environment, cultivation of human resources, and overseas operations. AJA makes every day effort in order to solve those difficult tasks.