Five Japanese professors visited SUNY Cortland on Nov. 7 to learn how to bring character education into their country’s classrooms. Two faculty members from Hiroshima University, two from Okayama ...

From shōnen powerhouses to family-friendly mascots, a handful of anime characters have crossed language and generational ...

Actor Andrew Koji, who is half Japanese and was born and raised in England, said he’s always felt out of place. But in the new action-comedy film “Bullet Train,” Koji plays a Japanese character, and ...

Anime is a genre that originated in Japan. As a result, many of the stories told take place in Japan or center around Japanese characters. Naruto and Bleach, two long-running mainstream anime, are ...

Non-Japanese characters in Japanese cartoons can be a tricky topic. Most characters in the medium are going to be Japanese, since the creators are aiming to appeal to their home audience first.

Actor Andrew Koji, who is half Japanese and was born and raised in England, said he’s always felt out of place. But in the new action-comedy film “Bullet Train,” Koji plays a Japanese character, and ...

Major publishing houses and creators' associations in Japan have issued a joint statement calling on US tech company OpenAI to address copyright infringement, citing pictures and videos thought to be ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Monday selected a kanji character used to encourage social distancing as its defining symbol for 2020, highlighting a catchphrase used extensively during the coronavirus ...

The Japanese Olympic Committee has licensed several of the nation’s most iconic anime characters to serve as goodwill ambassadors to promote the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in general and Japan’s athletes ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...