*As of July 2021.
**The industry survey included 300 companies of the animation production industry and was based on the Corporate Credit Report (CCR) database maintained by the source, which included about 1.9 million companies at the time of the survey, as well as other outside information.
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The number of animation production companies in Japan that employed more than 100 people amounted to ** in 2020. A vast majority of *** companies had fewer than ** employees.
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