Japan's comics and animation industry intends to fight a ban on the sale to minors of comics and film depicting "extreme sexual acts." By Elaine Lies TOKYO — Japan’s comics and animation industry ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Japan's comics and animation industry intends to fight a ban on the sale to minors of comics and film depicting "extreme sexual acts" including rape, incest and child sex ...

Japan announced today that it will finally make possession of child pornography illegal — but won't bar illustrated manga comics from portraying children in a sexually explicit manner. The ...

A man walks by an eatery with its facade painted with letters that read "Welcome to Washinomiya" and the characters of a TV animation series "Lucky Star" or "Raki Sta" near Washinomiya Jinja shrine in ...

When it comes to animation, China wants to be the next Japan. Long envious of its Asian neighbor’s success with anime, China is nurturing homegrown cartoonists and animators and encouraging them to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook For many anime fans, going to Japan is something of a pilgrimage. Anyone who has grown up on the ...

The rapid growth of the global content market has led South Korea and Hong Kong to establish a platform for industrial ...

TOKYO – Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage visitors to seek out the train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places ...

TOKYO – Emon Animation is attempting to channel the threat to Japan’s cartoon houses posed by the rise of China’s animation industry. Japan has long been Asia’s biggest producer of manga (comics) and ...

Police in Japan are investigating why a man torched a renowned animation studio in Kyoto, leaving 33 people dead in the country’s worst mass killing in almost 20 years. Officers haven’t been able to ...