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VFX, games and animation studios across Japan are hiring right now - 105 studios with open roles this week. The most active are KASSEN, Digital Media Lab and exsa, hiring across Tokyo. Demand centres on Animator, Modeler and FX Artist roles; the software and skills studios ask for most are Animation, Maya and After Effects. Rebuilt every week from live job postings, so it always shows who is hiring now.

105 studios hiring in Japan · 562 open roles this week
Top cities Tokyo
Most-wanted Animator, Modeler
Shows only the studios we actually collect data from - those with real openings we've scraped in Japan. Placeholder studios we don't yet track are left out, and nothing here is hand-maintained: a studio joins the moment its first Japan posting lands.
Previously hiring in Japan (12)
studios we collected here before - no live roles in Japan right now
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Tech roles in Japan all roles
programming, engineering & TD roles open now
Art skills in Japan all skills
creative tools & specialties (engines, DCC) in demand
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273
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Tech skills in Japan all skills
languages & pipeline in demand
73
MEL
45
C++
44
Git
42
C#
30
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Salaries in Japan all salaries
typical disclosed pay for creative & craft roles, USD-normalized
p25$19k
median$23k
p75$32k
based on 133 disclosed craft salaries in Japan
AI in job ads in Japan AI impact
No AI tools named in Japan's open postings yet. This fills in as studios here start asking for them.
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