by The Tokyo District Court convicted the president of a company that produces popular anime such as “Kimetsu no Yaiba” and the president of that company on charges of tax evasion.
The animation production company “Ufotable” and president Hikaru Kondo have been accused of tax evasion of about 138 million yen in three years.
In previous trials, Kondo admitted that he had been indicted, saying, “I was saving money for working capital,” after touching on the current state of the highly competitive anime industry.
In a ruling on the 10th, the Tokyo District Court pointed out that “whether or not you are blessed with a hit work determines profits, to a greater or lesser extent, it is not a problem peculiar to the animation industry.” Did.
After that, he sentenced Kondo to a sentence of 1 year and eight months in prison, a suspended sentence of 3 years, and a fine of 30 million yen to the company.
