From December 5 to 7, 2025, Galerie Joseph is presenting a selection of nearly 300 original drawings from Japanese animation.

Premiering in Japan on July 6th as part of the Summer 2024 anime schedule, The Elusive Samurai will be directed by Yuta Yamazaki for studio CloverWorks. Yasushi Nishiya will be serving as character ...

Directed by Isamu Imakake, it details the physical and spiritual journey of two young cousins who meet one summer.

Animation co-productions between Japanese media companies and their Asian counterparts were once few and far between, but in the past decade, with the rapid rise of animation industries in China and ...

Bunraku is a traditional performance art in which the narrator (tayu), shamisen player and puppeteers combine their mastery — cultivated over decades of training — to breathe life into otherwise ...

TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters) - (This July 14 story has been corrected to fix description of film to say death of mother, not death of father, in paragraph 3) Without trailers, ads or any promotion at all, ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

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Japan’s animation industry grew by 14.8% to hit record revenues of $25BN (JPY3.8TR) in 2024, with much of the increase coming from overseas markets, according to a report presented by the Association ...