Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, from left, Ansel Elgort and John Boyega attend Tokyo Comic Con’s opening ceremony at Makuhari ...

A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help translate manga into English, ...

Camp Foster came alive as Comic Con Okinawa 2024 drew crowds of Status of Forces Agreement personnel and local residents on 8 ...

Shores, M.W. 2023. A Celebrity’s Fifteen-Year Reign and Reinvention of KamigataRakugo. Japanese Studies, Vol. 43, Issue. 1, p. 1.

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Blackstone plans to buy Japanese e-comic and information-technology services company Infocom, in its largest private-equity deal ever in the country. The U.S. investment company said its funds and ...

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The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... Eventually someone asked about the Weekly Shonen Jump comic anthology. The day the bookstore reopened also happened to be Monday, the release ...