Analysis and Suggestions of University Curriculum in the Japan for Cartoon Content Creation Education

Recently, as the educational demand for cartoon contents containing a webtoon has increased, new departments related to cartoon contents are increasing in universities, but research is insufficient related to refer to in establishing the curriculum. For this reason, the purpose of this study is to analyze related curriculum at universities in Japan to derive contents that can be applied to related departments in Korea as this study is a follow-up study of related curriculum analysis at universities in United states. The analysis process is as follows. an individual analysis of selected three universities in Japan are conducted by the analysis criteria set, and then a comprehensive analysis based on collected results of individual analyses is conducted. As final, Including the analytical result of the U.S. University in previously published paper, the implications for education direction that can be considered when constructing the curriculum at a university in Korea are suggested. It is hoped that the analysis results of this study can be a basic study that can contribute to cartoon content education.