About Anime Central Anime Central (ACen) is the largest anime, manga and Japanese popular culture convention in Chicago and the Midwest. Anime Central 2025 will take place from May 16-18 at the Hyatt ...

On January 29, J apan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) – the governmental competition regulator in the country – announced that ...

MIYAZAKI, Japan -- Miyazaki prefecture, on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, is leveraging anime and manga for tourism promotion through public-private partnerships. One such initiative ...

On Friday nights at 6 p.m., fans of Japanese animation at Ohio University meet in Scripps Hall to hang out and watch their ...

TOKYO – A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio has dropped his appeal and accepted the court’s penalty, a lawyer and local media said on ...

Shueisha celebrates 2 million subscribers on the Shonen Jump YouTube channel by holding a festival where it uploads free ...

Still, even the most action-oriented anime viewer can enjoy a simple story about the day-to-day lives of its characters. The ...

For Yumiko Shibata, being a voice actress was always a dream as much as a career. Bringing popular manga characters to life in animated movies and video games was rewarding, but paid so poorly that ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a long period of stagnation. Source: FactSet, Bank of Japan By The New York ...

This photo provided by Kanagawa Prefectural Police shows posters created using generative AI that are suspected of infringing the copyrights of popular anime franchises. YOKOHAMA -- Police in ...