TOKYO -- As labor unions at Japan's largest corporations celebrated their biggest wage increases in over three decades this month, Masuo Ueda was busy supporting the country's struggling animators, who toil long hours for less than minimum wage to keep the $19 billion anime industry able to churn out hits.
Many Japanese consumers and workers at small companies have yet to see real-life benefits from the country's recent flurry of economic good news. © Reuters
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