All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known ...

NHK World's John LaDue, left, speaks with a Taiwanese manga fan looking for Mandarin versions in Akihabara. Mantra's Ishiwatari is from a cross-cultural background himself — born to a Japanese ...

NTT Docomo Studio & Live will work with Libalent to establish a new brand that publishes Japanese manga works worldwide.

A related Japanese term is "manga," which refers to animated cartoons and comics in general, not necessarily in the anime style. Outside Japan, the terms manga and anime are often used synonymously.

Participate in an intensive manga production workshop at Japan's premiere technical training school for manga. During your two weeks in Japan, you’ll study at: Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata is ...

TOKYO – One of Japan’s most successful manga series will be translated into English, 19 years after it began dominating its home market. The new version of Kingdom, which chronicles ancient ...

Many of Kyoto's top attractions pay homage to a Japan of the past, but the Kyoto International Manga Museum focuses on a very current form of Japanese art. Manga is a style of comics that exploded ...

The global phenomenon of Japanese anime and manga is attracting hordes of piracy websites that illegally sell the popular content. NHK has learned that a Chinese court has found three nationals ...

Innovations in the African film industry are increasingly attracting the attention of creators of Japanese anime and manga. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the popularity of and demand for Japanese ...