AJA:日本動漫協會是一個由各家動畫製作企業參與的行業組織,成立於2002年5月,致力於動畫製作技術的開發、市場情報的收集與釋出、著作權保護、人才培養以及動畫作品附加價值的創造等。
日本動畫協會整合業界資源及思想,與海外行業不斷進行交流,推動日本動畫業持續發展。截至2011年4月,協會共有59間公司成為其會員,成員幾乎囊括了現今日本所有知名動畫製作機構,具有很大影響力。
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.