With its mountains of public debt, a nuclear meltdown to mop up and the 2020 Olympics bill, you'd think the last thing the Japanese government would be spending taxpayer money on is a study on robots in science fiction.
But as the Terminator once said: "Wrong."
From the halls of Kasumigaseki comes "Japanese Animation Guide: The History of Robot Anime," a 90-page inquiry commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and its Manga, Animation, Games, and Media Art Information Bureau.