TOKYO – Emon Animation is attempting to channel the threat to Japan’s cartoon houses posed by the rise of China’s animation industry. Japan has long been Asia’s biggest producer of manga (comics) and ...

When it comes to animation, China wants to be the next Japan. Long envious of its Asian neighbor’s success with anime, China is nurturing homegrown cartoonists and animators and encouraging them to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's comics and animation industry intends to fight a ban on the sale to minors of comics and film depicting "extreme sexual acts" including rape, incest and child sex imposed by ...