Local artists in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto reveal the mystery behind their craft, from silk-weaving to manga cartoons. Nowhere else can you find so many Japanese art forms in one place as ...

TOKYO — Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation and named a perfect figure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon. Foreign Minister ...

Characters from the Harry Potter movies have recently been rendered in cartoon-style drawings and imprinted on stationery products in Japan, more than 15 years after the first movie was released.

Japanese government puts cartoon cat to work. ktrk. By ABC13. Thursday, March 20, 2008. TOKYO, Japan Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an "anime ambassador," handing a human-sized ...

Japan has pulled a mascot representing a cartoon tritium atom happily floating around in wastewater. People said the cuteness of the mascot undermined a serious issue, local media reported.

She would record the Japanese show “Sailor Moon,” pause it and trace the picture on the TV onto a sheet of paper. Now, Marrero-Akin, 23, has started a museum in Gainesville dedicated to anime art.

While Japan’s human diplomats struggle to quell rising tensions with China over the South and East China Sea, their “anime ambassador”—a red bean pancake loving, 22nd century CGI cartoon ...

Hong Kong is about to see a collection of Japanese artist Yusuke Hanai’s cartoon sculptures of unsmiling, unkempt men. ‘Whenever I come across artwork with people smiling, I find it rather ...

Takashi Murakami’s exhibit at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum comments on the monstrous effects of social media — but there’s also a selfie opportunity with a neon sign.