MOVIES Paprika (R) Sony Pictures Classics (90 min.) Directed by Satoshi Kon. With the voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Akio Ohtsuka. In Japanese, with English subtitles. Opens Friday at theaters in New ...

In Japan, "anime," pronounced "ah-nee-meh," are cartoons that date back to the early 1900s. A related Japanese term is "manga," which refers to animated cartoons and comics in general, not necessarily ...

The anti-war resolve of a late artist who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, continues to shine through ...

Since the dawn of time (animation time at least), people who aren’t in the know have categorised Japanese anime and American cartoons under the umbrella term of ‘animation’, expecting them both to ...

HONG KONG – Walt Disney is to begin broadcasting Japanese cartoon “Doraemon,” the first time in the iconic series’ history that it will play in English in the U.S. Some 26 English-dubbed episodes will ...

2003-04-13 04:00:00 PDT Tokyo-- Back in 1951, Osamu Tezuka, a Japanese cartoonist, dreamed up Astro Boy, a lovable robot with laser fingertips, searchlight eyes, machine guns in his black shorts, and ...

Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite comes with a generous amount of storage capable of holding more than enough reading material for the average user, unless that user happens to be a devout consumer of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of fandom. However, in the hearts and minds of Chinese fans of Japanese anime, the Great Firewall of ...

After cracking down on unlicensed foreign TV dramas, China’s media regulators are setting their sights on cartoons. The Ministry of Culture, which is in charge of China’s online animation content, ...