Economy
Cool Japan Fund's Possible Scrapping and a ¥34 Trillion Content Push Draw Distrust
The Cool Japan Fund, with accumulated losses topping 50 billion yen, may be scrapped or restructured — even as the government unveiled a plan to invest on the order of 34 trillion yen by 2033 to push games, anime and other content overseas. With little reckoning for past failures, netizens responded with deep distrust: 'middlemen will skim it,' 'nothing reaches the creators,' and 'anything the government touches dies.'
