There have been many great Japanese Animated movies released over the years, from classics like Akira to recent hits like The ...

TOKYO (AP) — Takashi Yanase, creator of one of Japan's most beloved cartoon characters, Anpanman, has died of heart failure, his studio said Tuesday. He was 94. Yanase died at a Tokyo hospital early ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. This work from 1979 about a kindly inventor who lives in the woods certainly looks ...

However, anime’s success story in the West started a long time ago, and one of the cornerstones on this journey was Cartoon ...

Tonko House, the studio founded by filmmakers Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, has partnered with Hulu in Japan to co-produce a short-form series based on the characters from their 2015 Oscar-nominated ...

Ahead of a weekend when Asian content will be making a big impact at San Diego Comic-Con, two of Japan’s largest industrial and financial conglomerates have quietly begun to invest in Japanese ...

FILE - Doraemon, one of the most popular animation characters in Japan, participates in a kick-off ceremony of the Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo when Tokyo is bidding against Istanbul ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the ...