Overview of the media content market in Japan

"[...] [T]his article quantitatively organizes and analyzes current state of content production and distribution systems from the viewpoint of the content itself, with the objective of revealing the structure and mechanism of the media content production and distribution systems in this multimedia, multichannel-era. To begin, we will indicate in Chapter 2 the definition and categorization of the media content and types covered in this research and the procedures of aggregating these data. In Chapters 3 and 4, we will quantitatively indicate the actual state of production and distribution of media contents in terms of both value and volume. And in Chapter 5, we will engage in analysis that is necessary to understand recent trends in the media content market, such as the state of multiuse distribution and analyses of the trends of network distributed content types." [Information des Anbieters]