(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

Anne's imagination sparks wonder in all who encounter her — even younger viewers who aren't able to read the subtitles.

Osamu Tezuka's robotic boy wonder, Astro Boy, returns to the airwaves with a vibrant full-color restoration created using AI ...

Sony Pictures has acquired worldwide theatrical rights, excluding Japan, to the anime Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc. The studio has set an October 29, 2025 release date in the United States, ...

Singaporeans have been among the highest per capita users of ChatGPT globally, OpenAI said last October. Read more at ...

Artificial intelligence risks taking Japanese anime artists' jobs but nothing ... Despite his age, Hayao won his second Oscar ...

In Japan, policymakers and economists are paying close attention to the "oshikatsu" phenomenon as a growing driver of ...

Ranger and Winger have all announced 2025 farewell tours in Japan, a country that played a big role in each of their success ...

Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong threw the ball back into the stands and a 10-year-old Japanese boy was the lucky recipient to a valuable souvenir. “I was happy I was able to hit a homer off ...

Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong threw the ball back into the stands, and a 10-year-old Japanese boy was the lucky recipient of a valuable souvenir. "I was happy I was able to hit a homer off a ...

To critics, highlighting these two characters allegedly overwrites the history of male Japanese samurai, injecting a “foreignness” they believe distorts the setting. Historians also debate ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A 10-year-old boy who caught the home run ball hit by the Los Angeles’ Shohei Ohtani, shows the ball to ...