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Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Oct 11, 2014
Digital manga giving print a run for it money
Manga is a central part of Japanese pop culture, appealing not only to kids but also to salarymen and women on their daily commute. Even former Prime Minister Taro Aso declared his love for the medium.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Oct 4, 2014
A Drifting Life
Readers tired with the glut of violence, wonderment and sentimentality that defines manga fantasies centering on characters with extraordinary powers and cute, eroticized females will find the unsparing social realism of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's autobiographical "A Drifting Life" a breath of fresh air.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 27, 2014
Time Killers
"Time Killers" is a collection of short stories by Kazue Kato in the realm of fantasy. The beautiful artwork takes the reader from the sea to the stars and across the globe.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 13, 2014
Millennium Snow vol. 1-2
Bisco Hatori, author of the popular manga series and anime "Ouran High School Host Club," delivers a romantic comedy with a supernatural twist with "Millennium Snow," a series that will make any fan of shōjo (young girl) manga blush.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 30, 2014
In Clothes Called Fat
Food's the best. But peer pressure can make us do weird things, and when plump office worker Noko Hanazawa discovers that her boyfriend is bonking the blonde waif from work, she decides to take desperate measures. It's time to lose weight, no matter the cost.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 22, 2014
Comiket grows stronger each year
Held twice a year and famous among otaku (fanboys and fangirls) the world over, Comiket, short for Comic Market, held its 86th event Aug. 15-17 at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba. With more than 550,000 people reportedly attending the event over the three days, Comiket has grown significantly since its early...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2014
Harasser of manga author draws maximum sentence
The unrepentant man driven by jealousy to repeatedly threaten the author of a popular basketball manga gets a 4 1/2-year prison term, the longest allowed.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 16, 2014
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign (vol. 1)
You have to wonder whether the vein of vampire stories will ever be sucked dry, and yet the blood just keeps on flowing with the release of "Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign" from Viz.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 9, 2014
Food Wars! vol. 1
"Food Wars!" tells the story of an ambitious boy named Soma whose dreams of becoming a successful chef appear to be over when his father closes down the family restaurant. His father then challenges Soma to enroll in an elite culinary school that prides itself on a brutally low graduation rate. Throw...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2014
Manga shop threatens to post face of alleged shoplifter on Internet
A well-known “otaku” shop in Tokyo is threatening to post an alleged shoplifter's face online if he doesn't return what he stole.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 2, 2014
Monster Volume 1
Naoki Urasawa is one of the giants of modern manga and is perhaps best known outside Japan for his epic series "Nijuseiki Shonen (20th Century Boys)" and "Pluto," his reinterpretation of Osamu Tezuka's "Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy)." In "Monster," too, it could be argued there is a hint of Tezuka's influence....
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 28, 2014
Japan plans campaign to curb manga, anime copyright violations abroad
The government will initiate in August a major campaign to curtail the rampant practice, mainly in China, of uploading Japanese anime and manga on the Web for public viewing without authors' permission, NHK said Monday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 26, 2014
Japan's 'Moe' obsession: the purest form of love, or creepy fetishization of young girls?
Anyone who has visited Tokyo's Akihabara district in the past decade will have run into countless images of cartoonish girls: in posters, in figurines and in the form of real women dressed up as French maids.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 19, 2014
Black Rose Alice vol. 1
When I was a kid, vampires were blood-sucking monsters in stories of terror and fright, but nowadays they're all romantic Romeos whose interest is not so much in blood as in the lovelorn heart that pumps it.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 18, 2014
Have an animated summer adventure
When Monkey D. Luffy of the manga and anime "One Piece" screams out "I'm going to be a pirate king," does it ever make you think to yourself, "I want to be a pirate king too"? Well now's your chance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 9, 2014
China's hottest app inspired by devotion to Japanese manga
Erick Guo left Asia's largest Internet company last year to build a team of artists and engineers who could create smartphone applications inspired by Japanese manga.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Jul 3, 2014
Happy birthday, Sailor Moon!
In 1992, a 14-year-old Japanese girl set out to save our universe from total annihilation.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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