For a Research Paper

[Animeniax]

Then, as they learn to improve, the lower labour costs would provide incentives for further outsourcing of work to foreign studios, resulting in a diminishing domestic anime industry in Japan.

Depends on if you think this is good or bad for Japan and for anime. Personally anime is Japanese to me, and should stay in-house. That will keep jobs, innovation, and the art a part of Japan.

[Kraco]

Depends on if you think this is good or bad for Japan and for anime. Personally anime is Japanese to me, and should stay in-house. That will keep jobs, innovation, and the art a part of Japan.

Unfortunately it's such a tough business that they can't pay even the Japanese reasonable wages so it's no wonder they outsource to more inexpensive countries if they can save even a single yen by doing so. Considering the Japanese are dying out at the same time, there's little that can be done about the situation until they get computer software that pretty much draws the frames by itself yet still produces artistic enough material.

[XanBcoo]

Is it sad that I remember a thread similar to this one back from 2005?

http://forums.gotwoot.net/showthread.php?t=12193

Deals with Sapphire's first suggestion. However, you could also look into outsourcing as Animeniax suggested, but that's not a problem specific to anime so it wouldn't make for a very strong paper if you wanted to only focus on anime.

[Animeniax]

That's weird, why is the thread title at the top of every thread post in that link? Was that how things were done in 2005?

To cationanion: you could do a paper about weaboos/wapanese and how anime/manga gives them a pathetically looking-glass limited view of Japan as a culture and people.