Should manga be worthy of its own museum?
Of course it should. If it has cultural and artistic significance, it’s probably worth keeping around. The Democratic Party of Japan doesn’t agree:
The DPJ strongly urged Prime Minister Taro Aso, who is known as a big fan of manga, not to build the facility aimed at collecting and exhibiting manga and animated films.
Although funding for the project gained Diet approval as part of the fiscal 2009 supplementary budget in late May, the DPJ has said that if it wins the election it will scrap the plan and shift part of the money to social relief for single-mother households.
More here, including responses from people who probably hate single mothers and/or their households (i.e., the apparently struggling content creation industry).
